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 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 the mail to your local machine. the "unified > mailbox" > concept means that the inboxes from multiple (IMAP) mail accounts are > presented > as a single mailbox, without actually merging them into a single mailbox. the > mail remains on the IMAP servers.
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? > mutt is really a one-mail-account kind of mail client. while there are ways to > use it with multiple mail accounts (i use screen with multiple mutt instances, > for example), it's not really as convenient as e.g. thunderbird makes it. I disagree; I think Mutt is more of a 'read mail from file' kind of mail client. This whole concept of Mutt's directly accessing either the POP3 or IMAP protocol is a relatively new feature to the client and Mutt really wasn't originally designed to work that way. I really don't care for some of the features they've added into 1.5.x, but I can see why some might see the features as attractive. I tried to use Mutt as an IMAP client for awhile, but I threw away that approach because I realized rather quickly that while Mutt may tolerate being used in that way, it doesn't *want* to. > it would be nice if mutt were to gain the ability to conveniently deal with > multiple mail accounts within a single instance, but it's up to the developers > to decide if they want to implement it. I think the devs are at the point where they need to decide whether to go all in or all out. If they're going to start turning Mutt into something remotely resembling a half-decent IMAP client, they're going to have to start adding features like the unified IMAP mailbox you describe. Personally I just feel that it bloats the code. I would prefer for Mutt to stay Mutt, the 'read mail from file' MUA, and have people that want to use a TUI IMAP client use one. But if these new 1.5.x features are here to stay, I agree that Mutt should need to be more accommodating with multiple IMAP accounts.
