Re: profiles

[Terence Haddock <thaddock tripi com>]

My $0.02, as this is a feature I feel would be useful, I do not think that
using multiple Linux login accounts is really the best way to handle
different outgoing accounts. I use different accounts at different domain
names for different purposes: eg. work, play, school, I have many different
E-mail addresses, all of which are "me". For work related activities I
would like the "From" field to reflect my work E-mail address, and other
activities may use my generic tripi.com mail address. Right now I do this
manually by changing the "From" field, and reconfiguring the SMTP server on
my machine, which is quite a pain.

I do not use these multiple E-mail addresses as different people, like
"profiles" in Netscape Navigator, just as different activities. Especially
since I have an entire network of machines sharing user account
information, adding new users for each new E-mail address is not only
incorrect, it's impractical.

Sincerely,
Terence Haddock

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:43:22 Raven wrote:
> >Actually I think he means He has for example 5 different pop accounts
> and
> when he composes a message he wanst to be able
> >to pick what account to send it from.  That way the message takes on the
> profile of that account.  My windows mail client
> >Calypso does this very well. Once you have more than one Pop account
> setup
> the From box on the compose window turns
> >until a pull down and you can pick the account to use.  You can also set
> it
> to have a default or to alway force you to choose.
> 
> I think you and I mean the same thing - the difference is methodology,
> not
> intent.
> 
> You are suggesting that the multiple identities ("profiles") be handled
> by
> the mail client, while I am suggesting that the job should be done by
> logging onto Linux under different user names. I believe that balsa can
> handle my scenario now, and that further, this would be the more
> theoretically correct scenario.
> 
> Raven
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