[Gllug] e-mail software

[Stuart Sears]

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J. Dudley Swale wrote:
> I can't claim to be a newbie as I have been using Linux for ten years but I 
> need some advice now. Can someone reccommend an e-mail program which will fit 
> my peculiar needs.
> I am an officer of several societies and run web site domains for two of them. 
> This means that I have fourteen e-mail boxes on an assortment of different 
> domains and servers.  Almost all the boxes are pop3 only. Most of them I have 
> to look at every day but two of them are shared and are only mine at certain 
> times (we take turns at answering enquiries). 

Although I am sure this has already been decided, is there a specific
reason why you are using POP and not IMAP for the shared boxes? It would
avoid problems with downloading the mails when you didn't want to...


> I have been using SuSE for years and always used Star Office desktop with one 
> icon set up for each box which worked well, I could decide which boxes I was 
> accessing and when I sent mails they automatically came from the correct 
> address.
> The Star Office desktop vanished when Suse 9 came in and I am now using SuSE10 
> and Kmail to read e-mails. My problem is twofold: first KMail reads all the 
> boxes everytime, so if it is not my turn I configure KMail to leave them on 
> the server and then forget to reconfigure to pull them off it when it is my 
> turn. Second KMail sends all outgoing e-mails from the default mailbox which 
> means that I have to reconfigure the default between each batch of outgoing 
> e-mails.
kmail can be set (per account) to ignore certain mailboxes unless you
say otherwise... ('include in manual checking' IIRC)
To force mails from a particular account to use a specific SMTP server
you can look at the 'advanced' tab for each identity you have defined,
and check the 'special transport' (IIRC) box for that one, which allows
you to choose which smtp server is used for mails from that account.


> Is there any software around which will do the job better than KMail?
> Thanks in advance if anyone can help.
well there are also evolution (spit) and thunderbird (entertaining
defaults!) but they would also need customising. I know you can do
everything I have detailed for kmail with thunderbird as well.




Regards

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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