On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 11:19:53AM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote:
> I have been told that mutt will do what I want, so far how ever I have not
> figured it out. I want to be able to do the following:
>
> 1. Check multiple pop accounts (say [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 2. When I reply to a message addressed to user1, I should reply with a
> from header [EMAIL PROTECTED], and when I reply to a message to user2, I
> should have a from header [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Can someone please tell me if what I want is possible and if so, which
> comfiguration options do I need to set to get it all to work? If mutt
> can't do it does anyone know a mail client that can?
>
It's probably possible using mutt's hooks and/or macros, however:-
1 - You can't (I don't think) get mutt to collect mail from a number
of POP3 accounts automatically. You will have to request the mail
collection with a 'G' having set up the POP3 parameters in the
.muttrc file.
2 - It would be fairly easy to set up a couple of macros that would
set the POP3 paramters *and* your From: address for the two POP3
accounts. You would then have a single macro you could execute to
collect mail from each of the accounts and it would set the From:
header as well.
3 - The chorus from most mutt users will be use fetchmail to collect
POP3 mail and procmail to move it into mailboxes as required. This
may well be the most sensible solution in your case but that
depends on your situation.
I personally think it's a pity that mutt doesn't accomodate POP3 users
a bit more. The fetchmail/procmail approach has one _major_ missing
feature, it's not interactive and so can't allow the user to decide
which mails to download from the POP3 server and, independently, which
mails to delete from the server. This can only be provided by an MUA
interactively and are very useful to anyone who reads mail on a POP3
server from different machines.
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Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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