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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:36:00 +0000
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Mailreader with "multiple personalities"?
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On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 04:26:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> The situation is such that I wish to manage the bulk of my mail from a 
> single login on a single system, mostly for portability (being a 
> laptop) and centralisation.
> 
> However, I have a number of different contact addresses, and want to 
> retain the individuality of these, ie. mail to one should be answered 
> as thought it had come from that one, rather than having everything 
> effectively forwarded to a single mailbox.

I'd use (in fact, I use something close to) the following:

  1. Route mail to all your addresses to one account using sendmail 
     aliases (or similar).

  2. Run procmail to split the messages out in to seperate mailbox
     files (folders) depending on the address the message was originally 
     to.

  3. Run xbuffy to keep an eye on incoming messages to each folder.

  4. Run mutt as your mail client. Mutt's configuration allows you to 
     define 'folder-hooks', commands that are run whenever mutt loads a 
     particular mail folder.

     Configure each folder-hook to alter your 'From' address based on
     the folder. You could also do other things, like select a specific
     signature, and so on.

  5. Either:

       1. Run a single copy of mutt, and use the 'change folder' command
          to select between different folders.

       2. Put entries on your X window manager (or similar) to run mutt
          with the -f parameter to select a specific mail folder.

N
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