> I assume you want to keep the email from each account separate? Yes, that is correct.
> I've been an MH user going on 33yrs. I'm curious: what did people commonly use for reading mail when MH was just invented? Was it the Unix "mail" program? > Start with the realization the nmh is *not* a monolithic email client as > Mutt/Elm/pine. Each command within the nmh suite is a separate command > line executable. nmh uses standard unix file structure for folders (which > are directories) and messages (which are stored as files). There is no > IMAP support, so the email must be received locally to your machine. > > In my case, I use fetchmail, and every 5 minutes it downloads my email from > two different servers that I use for my personal email. Those emails are > co-mingled, so I don't know which email actually received them unless I look > at the headers (which are not displayed by default). Since you mentioned a > work account, I would think you want to keep those emails separate. > > I use a GUI front-end for nmh, called Sylpheed (found at > https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/) and have been quite happy with it for over > a decade. Okay, I will take a look at these in more detail. I am currently experimenting with fetchmail. I will try to experiment with the others too. > > 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. > > And I'll second the suggestion. It is the easiest, cleanest solution and > avoids any possible confusion where you sent a work email via a personal > account *or* sent something personal via your work email. I understand that this ensures that the accounts stay separate, but managing multiple user accounts is not exactly light work. I guess the use of separate UNIX accounts may be appropriate for particular use cases, but I do not need such a strict separation at the moment.
