Re: [Evolution] Mulitple IDs

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm htt-consult com>]

At 02:31 PM 12/28/2005, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:23 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > Thunderbird offers 'profiles' as well as 'personalities' within a
> > profile.  Of course here too I need multiple Thunderbirds off an
> > running.  So I may just be doing yet another indirection here too.
> >
> > Mail has to be solved first.  Then I will work with OpenOffice on 
> other things.
>
> Hmmm, at first sight this looks a bit like my situation. I manage home
> and work mail accounts from evolution. Mail that gets sent to my work
> account, and I reply to, automatically has my work's origin address and
> my work's email server selected by evolution, as for my home mail. And
> if I don't like it, I can always select one myself.
>
> The only thing I need to do to make this work is to create multiple
> accounts in evolution. Each account has an outgoing email address + long
> name, an incoming and outgoing email server. I guess that's all that's
> needed to do what you want? You did know that clicking on "From" when
> you type a new message, lets you select another mail account (not only
> origin address)?

Do you have 2 inboxes, outboxes, draftboxes, and probably trashboxes 
(for audit reasons)?

Do you archive each separately, including filters (again for audit 
reasons, I need this for the contracting gig, they are rather finicky)?

You are doing what is frequently called 'personalities'  Multiple 
emails accounts within one email environment.

I indicated that I have tried this a number of times over the years.

Filter rules get interesting.  Consider that one of your first set of 
rules is to move mail to unique inboxes (foo1in and foo2in) based on 
To:, CC:, and BCC: content.  From there, other rules move mail to 
'appropriate folders'.  This first step is needed for that mail which 
does not fit into a folder specific rule.

Now comes the email that is to a number of our addresses.  You do 
receive multiple copies, but all of them end up in one fooxin folder 
(based on first rule).

Or you get a message to one account that happens to fit the rule for 
another account's rule and it moves from foo1in to foo2stuff.  Rules 
are linear with stop options (don't process anymore rules).  Not tree 
structured (since rule 1 applied, skip to rule 15, and drop out at rule 25).

You end up spending more time fixing mail than responding to mail.