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Rather than copy Mail.app, try symlinking
Authored by: mj on Apr 17, '03 06:21:24PM

I don't care care for this kind of security, so I haven't tried this, but one alternative to having a copy of Mail.app on the disk image is to just symlink to Mail.app from the disk image. So, make a directory on the disk image called Mail.app, and inside it, symlink to the Contents directory in Mail.app. Opening this symlinked version treats it as a copy of Mail.app, so opening it will open a second Mail.app if the one in Applications is already running. I like this method, as a symlink is much smaller than the actual app, and updates should work more gracefully, without intervention.

MJ



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