Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:58:08 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailreader with "multiple personalities"? Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980217104741.13533D-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <19980216123600.07912@iii.co.uk>
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I have a machine back on current now and recent discussions with Eivind steered me to mutt which I'm testing on that box. I use Pine and procmail, but I'm moving to mutt and procmail. Mutt is lightweight, very customizable, and does threading. I could remap keys to be more like Pine, but I'm just going to unlearn them and remap the keys to be more like vi. You can also set it up to make the headers editable by putting "set edit_hdrs" in your .muttrc. Regards, Mike Hancock On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > > 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 > -- > --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- > . . . and relax -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F, 2-5-12 Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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