Many years ago (when nmh was mh and back before MIME was a thing and attachments were rare, so command line stuff was able to do 100% of my email handling) I simply had two accounts on my UNIX system. One for me and one for my alternate ID. There was some extra work involved keeping things straight and/or tweaking configurations when I pushed out a configuration change (say, more headers to hide), but it was minimal. The biggest "gotcha" was the mental footwork to keep contexts separate (start dealing with email in window 1 as me, get distracted, switch to window 2/alt ID...). I technically had 3 such IDs (work at $employer, two personal), but the work/non-work separation was physical (and ~1000 miles) while the other two involved the same data store and infrastructure.
Using different UNIX accounts ensures 100% separation. You can do everything under one ID in theory, but you'll spend a lot of effort/time switching email IDs via different profiles. My opinion is that this will be error prone unless one has a lot of self discipline. On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 5:18 AM Tim Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > I manage 3 email accounts: my computer's mail inbox (/var/mail/me), a > work email account ([email protected]) and a personal email account > ([email protected]). Can I use nmh to manage all three accounts? > > I am new to nmh, and I am asking this because I noticed that the entire > book "MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers" seems to assume that the > use has only one email account. With Thunderbird and Mutt (or even GNU > Emacs' Gnus), it is easy to manage multiple multiple accounts. Does nmh > have easy support for multiple email accounts? If so, could you give a > high-level overview of how users typically do it? > >
