On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:33:48PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > OK, you want mail from separate accounts to be collected into separate > locations in one account, each with their own set of subfolders, and a > mail client which can understand this, and send outgoing mail > appropriately for the account whose mail it's looking at, potentially > changing everything from the signature file to the mail server. How > does the following sound: Of course your falling into the "personailities" mentality.
> 1) Fetchmail, which will grab the mail from separate accounts, and > stuff it through... Requires filtering to separate out accounts which should be separate in the first place. > 2) A MTA, any MTA. I use exim, which will happily stuff the mails > through... And, amazingly enough... > 3) Procmail, which will easily organize your email into whatever > structure you see fit, with plenty of folders and subfolders for... ...also does filtering, no need for procmail. > 4) Mutt, which can either be set up with an bunch of folder-hook > commands to change your settings based on which account's email you are > looking at, or with a different muttrc for each account and run with > "mutt -M ~/.muttrc-<account>", depending on how you want to use it. Use > aliases to keep the command lines easy to remember and type. A bunch of folder hook commands or have to use a separate instance completely. So each time I sign up for a new mailing list on my work account, for example, I need to: Add a new filter to my work account set of filters. Add a folder definition into Mutt just to keep it straight. Still send mail out my home SMTP server. Contrast: Nothing. > The only downside I see with the above is it's a bear to configure > initially. It should be a SMOP to write a script or a GUI druid to > automate such configurations. It is a bear to configure every time something changes, it doesn't keep it all separate, COMPLETELY SEPARATE. That is unacceptable. > If this isn't enough power for you, what more do you want? There's > probably a solution, but you have to be specific as to your needs. If > you can't express what you want, "Too bad" is all that can really be > said without you paying someone. I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------