Re: unified inbox

2011-02-28 Thread Joost Kremers
in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox for my two accounts? I don't think having a specific feature in Mutt is necessary or desirable to achieve this. You can easily have mail from multiple accounts delivered to your mailspool using getmail or fetchmail. except that that downloads

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-28 Thread Derek Martin
that that downloads the mail to your local machine. Not if you run it on your IMAP server. but it still puts all your mail into a single mail box, which entirely defeats the purpose of a unified inbox. I don't see that at all... The purpose of having a unified inbox is to present all of your new mail

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-28 Thread Mr. Puneet Kishor
getmail or fetchmail. except that that downloads the mail to your local machine. Not if you run it on your IMAP server. but it still puts all your mail into a single mail box, which entirely defeats the purpose of a unified inbox. I don't see that at all... The purpose of having a unified

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-28 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
folders, and use folder hooks to set variables associated with the respective accounts upon entering the folder. I was reading the above message when it occurred to me that using the hcache functions of mutt might be suitable to implementing a unified inbox functionality. For example, if you could

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-27 Thread Derek Martin
for everything, and everything in its place. Most people I have encountered who use Mutt and enjoy it specifically do not want a unified inbox, myself certainly included. I think it's fair to say that Mutt was not designed with this paradigm in mind... The easiest way to deal with multiple

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:53:44PM -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote: Personally I prefer to use the right tool for the right job. Thunderbird is a much better IMAP client than Mutt, so why not use Thunderbird? How so? I disagree; I think Mutt is more of a 'read mail from file' kind of mail

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Logan Rathbone
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:43PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: So, since nothing is impossible in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox for my two accounts? I don't think having a specific feature in Mutt is necessary or desirable to achieve this. You can easily have mail from multiple accounts

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Joost Kremers
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:43PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: So, since nothing is impossible in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox for my two accounts? I don't think having a specific feature in Mutt is necessary

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Logan Rathbone
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 08:32:25PM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:43PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: So, since nothing is impossible in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox for my two accounts? I

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Joost Kremers
personally, for various reasons. the fact that it's a text-mode mail client is a large part of it. for me, mutt's IMAP capabilities are good enough. i don't even want a unified inbox... mutt is really a one-mail-account kind of mail client. while there are ways to use it with multiple mail

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Puneet Kishor
nothing is impossible in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox for my two accounts? I don't think having a specific feature in Mutt is necessary or desirable to achieve this. You can easily have mail from multiple accounts delivered to your mailspool using getmail or fetchmail

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com [02-26-11 19:02]: The reason I like mutt is because of its speed. All the programs I have mentioned above start breaking down in speed, perhaps hampered by the complexity of drawing the user interface, or doing whatever house-keeping they need to do behind

unified inbox

2011-02-24 Thread Puneet Kishor
) offer a unified inbox which shows emails from inboxes from all accounts. The emails are still marked with which account they belong to, but it really helps. As is, with mutt, I am constantly flipping between one account to another, and even though I have mapped the F1 and F2 keys to the inboxes

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Gray
and rebuild the index view. I don't have a real answer for you. What I do is to keep my two inboxes open in separate tabs of my terminal. One is a work account and the other is personal. A unified inbox would be cool, but this works just as well for me. I can quickly go back and forth between

Re: unified inbox

2011-02-24 Thread Puneet Kishor
in the derierre. Everytime mutt has to scan through the cache and rebuild the index view. I don't have a real answer for you. What I do is to keep my two inboxes open in separate tabs of my terminal. One is a work account and the other is personal. A unified inbox would be cool, but this works