On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:08:49PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > mutt is really a one-mail-account kind of mail client. > > That's amusing... I've been using it with multiple accounts for over a > decade. so have i, but you need to resort to some trickery to do that. either by defining macros to change account info (server, username/password), or by collecting the mail into a single mailbox, or (like me) by running multiple instances of mutt within screen/tmux or in different tabs of one's terminal emulator. it's certainly not as simple as: set imap_user[1] = "f...@bar.com" set imap_pass[1] = "baz" set imap_user[2] = "f...@buz.com" set imap_pass[2] = "baz2" > > 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. > > Many would argue that it does that already, and much more flexibly > than other clients do it. define "flexible" in this regard. i'm not aware of anything that mutt can do with multiple accounts that e.g. thunderbird cannot. (and there are things thunderbird can do, and mutt can't, such as the unified inbox, or easily copying messages from one IMAP server to another.) i would say that mutt is so flexible that it is possible to deal with multiple accounts in spite of the fact that it wasn't designed to do so. i mean, if thunderbird were designed to handle just one mail account, there would be no way to use it with more than one. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
