# Big Sur, Yes; Apple Mail Plugin, No

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My guess is that the order of operations is important somehow. I’ve experienced a similar situation with a brand new setup, but as I recall, macOS never asked for full disk access.

I managed to get things going, but perhaps the DT UI might be redesigned in such a way users are guided through the appropriate steps. That way DT can get feedback from the user whether all steps were taking correctly, as I understand macOS does not allow third party software like DT to request the status of certain settings like full disk access.

I’ve written out what happened and my suggestion here:

> [@Big Sur mail plugin once again](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/big-sur-mail-plugin-once-again/62651):
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> 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…

But of course, if an IMAP connection is integrated some day (who knows), all of this will likely be much easier 😃

> [@Poll: would you like it if DT contains an IMAP engine for archiving email?](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/poll-would-you-like-it-if-dt-contains-an-imap-engine-for-archiving-email/62776/3):
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> Thanks for your reply! It’s good to hear you’ve already been thinking about this point. I guess we’ll know if it’s possible and how long it took to get it working might a future release of DT offer this functionality. I was planning on closing the poll in about an hour, as it’s been up 24 hours at that time. So anybody who still wants to chip in: the clock is ticking. About 70 people viewed the topic as of now and 16 of those replied to the poll. For what it’s worth apparantly about a third of…

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