Matt Williams wrote: > David Tenser wrote: >>> As an average user who subscribes to 15 "birding" listservs with 200+ >>> messages arriving every day, I would find your suggested enhancement >>> extremely painful. I would hate to have to sift through all my >>> Birding e-mails to get to my business and/or personal e-mails > >> >> >> >> Of course, this is a matter of taste. Personally, I view it as if >> there's just one inbox that all mail goes into. Then you can create >> subfolders that different mail goes to, depending on account, subject, >> etc. So even with a unified inbox, you could specify to move all >> listservers to go into a sub folder. > > > You are right, however I have found that there are times when Yahoo is > down and in those times where that is true it Netscape has to give the > Yahoo server time enough to respond. In your proposed scenario, getting > my mail quickly from my PacBell account would be compromised by the up > or down status of Yahoo. With some luck and creativity there is a > solution that can accommodate both our ideas/needs.
One simple solution to that would be a way to order the accounts, so that the Yahoo account is downloaded last. / David
