On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:01:01AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > > > > 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.
I don't see that at all... The purpose of having a unified inbox is to present all of your new mail to you simultaneously. This does exactly that. > > > 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" No, it's much simpler. You simply need to understand how to configure Mutt. Just use URL syntax to define your mail folders, i.e.: mailboxes imap[s]://[username1[:password1]@]server1[:port][/path] mailboxes imap[s]://[username2[:password2]@]server2[:port][/path] [Of course, putting passwords in a config file is generally stupid... but mutt is flexible enough to let you be stupid.] Then, if need be, define folder hooks (or similar) to set your identities for sending mail, and such. This is hardly "trickery"; this is the standard way Mutt is configured to use multiple accounts (and to do many, many other things). > > > 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. Mutt is extremely unconventional, by design... that is what gives it its power. However what you want is pretty simple. You may not prefer the way it works in Mutt, but that bit is your problem. ;-) > > Many would argue that it does that already, and much more flexibly > > than other clients do it. > > define "flexible" in this regard. See above. I think that's pretty flexible. With proper hooks defined, folder or otherwise, you can switch back and forth between multiple accounts seamlessly and effortlessly, without even needing to notice. I haven't used Thunderbird for any meaningful mail usage, so I can't really compare, sadly. Each time I tried it I found it lacking in some way or other. Unified inbox is something I specifically DO NOT want, as it removes a certain amount of context from the mail-handling process for me. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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