[Gllug] Email client with multiple Identities

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Fri Dec 6 12:32:43 UTC 2002


Axel Segebrecht wrote:
> On 6/12/02 11:40, "Xander D Harkness" <xander at harkness.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>Mozilla and Evolution will both do this too.
>>
>>Set the other accounts to no imap account and just use them to send.
>>Ensure that you set the accounts to put your Sent mail in the correct
>>location.
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Xander
> 
> 
> Hi Xander,
> 
> Thanks for the tip although it's a bit of a cheat ;)
> 
> It works but I have to enter bogus data in the pop/imap, etc fields to
> convince him (Moz in this case). Not really ideal 'cause it will give errors
> when somebody presses 'send/recv'.
I use the set up in both Mozilla and Evolution and receive no errors.

There is a lovely drop down box to choose who I send from and it seems 
that it has been designed to work as different profiles.

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Also tried Pine and I don't find it that usable either. My big concern is
> that if I put a relative novice in front of it, he/she will be on the phone
> constantly asking me where things are and how things are done.
> 
> There surely must be a 'user friendly' pop/imap client that supports
> something as simple as multiple Ids (which IMHO means simply changing the
> 'from' and 'reply-to' header, well and allowing for a different .sig)?
> 
> Axel
> 
> 


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