As may be gathered from my recent messages on this list I'm playing at
using mutt with some IMAP accounts I have.
However I am also using mutt as my main 'local' mail program in three
different places. Hence I am using mutt on my home machine
(isbd.demon.co.uk), on this ISP login account (areti.co.uk) and at
work (kbss.bt.co.uk). At each of these locations mutt works with the
normal Unix/Linux mail spool etc., at home I use maildir, here and at
work I use normal mailbox format.
The major advantage of IMAP for me is that from any of these locations
I can save and retrieve 'important' mail and keep it organised in
folders which I can 'see' from wherever I happen to be logged on at
the time. I actually have two IMAP accounts on the IMAP server, one
for personal mail and one for business/company mail.
Now comes the 'philosopy' bit, mutt really isn't aware of this sort of
situation yet, it expects one 'set folder=<somewhere>' which says
where your 'home' mail directory is. This just isn't realistic when
using IMAP the way I do. Many MUAs are now taking on board the idea
that one may have multiple mail accounts and personalities. I know
it would be possible to go some way to accomodating this using mutt's
macro and hook capabilities but I think maybe a more direct way of
configuring this sort of thing should be thought about now that the
IMAP facilities are becoming a significant part of mutt.
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Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/
