[SLUG] POP3 and IMAP

[Fintan Gaughan]

On 21/04/06, Paul Teasdale <pdt at rcsuk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, April 21, 2006 12:22, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> > Paul Teasdale wrote:
> >> Some companies do offer IMAP but obviously you need to pay for that.
> >
> > I'd like a situation where I can receive email from a couple of accounts
> > into one IMAP account and then reply to each email as though I was
> > emailing from the originating account without having to remember to
> > change my 'from' header.
> >
> I haven't implemented an automatic solution to your above problem although
> there will probably be a way. My manual solution (only through KMail at
> the moment) was to set up three identity accounts. When I compose a mail I
> get an extra option to choose which identity I want to send as. I do have
> to remember to manually switch this if I don't want to use the default
> identity so it's not ideal (but it gets me by). Multiple identity accounts
> are also possible with Thunderbird (but again it's a manual switch).
>
> My webmail client just uses the default account. You got me thinking now.
> I wonder if SquirrelMail has an identities plug-in that some clever person
> has written. I'm going to take a look now.
>
> Regards,
> Paul.


Mutt does this without having to remeber which identites to select ..
maybe me and al will show you all how to use mutt in with pauls
demostration :-)
http://www.mutt.org/

Fintan