The mail plugin once more.
Could someone at DT please check if they’ve got the time:
- completely wipe disk of a test machine
- new macOS Big Sure installation
- new DT installation
- login as regular (non-admin) user
- start DT
- start Mail + setup some mail account (required to proceed I think)
- Are the add-ons installed automatically? (I can’t remember if this occurs)
- Do you get a request by DT or macOS to enable/manage the plugin in Mail?
- Do you get a request initiated by DT or macOS to allow full disk access?
- Does the mail plugin show up under macOS Mail->Preferences?
I’ve found none of the above occurs (except perhaps point 1) although the manual repeatedly states use of the plugin is advised to enhance importing e-mail. I went through several topics and troubleshooting in the manual to try and resolve it, but if above is reproducible I would consider that a bug or at least illogical behavior. I presume most users will not go looking for full disk access or start deleting library folders to troubleshoot on their own, nor should they ideally be required to read the manual (although it’s very well written IMO).
It appears re-installing the plugin is described in the manual on page 176, which more or less seems to make it a re-install ‘by default’ for some. I don’t think re-installing a plugin should be necessary if it could be avoided in the first place, but to make matters worse, in my case re-installing is impossible as the box is greyed out and DT reports the plugin is already installed.
What am I doing wrong? Is installation of the plug-in completely automatic? Does or doesn’t it require full-disk access?
TL/DR; mail plugin could to be more complicated than perhaps necessary