Re: How to create independant pop/smtp/mbox accounts

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2017.11.24 00:27, andré via balsa-list wrote:
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> > > 2) I'm migrating from Mozilla (which uses mbox), where I link each  
> > > pop account with its' own smtp account (with the same id +  
> > > password), and own mbox folder tree.
> > > I would prefer using the same configuration for Balsa.
> > I don't think you can quite do that.  You can use an Identity to  
> > refer to a set of pop and smtp credentials, but ALL retrieved mail  
> > goes into the Inbox.
> I was hoping that I could have a separate inbox for each pop account.
> I created a separate account just for Mageia due to getting problems  
> from too many emails being filtered from an inbox with my other  
> software-oriented email.
I currently fetch pop3 mail from five different places, and I have 36  
filters to sort it out into folders for each mailing list and various  
different financial accounts.  Most just filter on a combination of To:  
and From: headers; a few need additional criteria.

> > You can use filters to move mail from Inbox to the identity specific  
> > folder based on the "To:" address,
> > although that won't quite work if you have another alias receiving  
> > mail at the same address.
> > (For example, my users.sourceforge.net address is only a redirect to  
> > my main ISP mailbox, and I have several others which do the same.
> > Also, mailing lists have a To: of the list address, not your actual  
> > email.)
> That could work for incoming mail, since I don't do redirection.
> (Except for certain mostly spam, which doesn't have my email address  
> in the "To" field.)
> However, that makes filtering a lot more complex, since for most of  
> my 5 accounts I filter to many different mailboxes.
It's not really more comples.  If you would have six filters for each  
of 5 accounts/mailboxes, now you just have 30 filters and maybe each  
needs one more criteria than it would have.

> It also requires selecting the outgoing smtp accounts, instead of  
> them being automatically associated to the incoming account.
You can set a personality on each folder to set the smtp to use when  
composing a message (or replying to on) in that folder.  (I'm also  
thinking of filing a wish list so that Balsa will always use the  
outgoing smtp account to match the domain of the To: address.  This  
would help when I reply to a message still in the Inbox, so it doesn't  
just use the default smtp account.

> It makes me wonder how difficult it would be for Balsa to implement a  
> separate set of base mbox folders for each pop account ...
> (If that is ever seriously considered, I'd be willing to help ...)
Feel free to file a wish-list request at bugs.gnome.org so at least the  
issue is not forgotten.  As with most FLOSS software, patches are  
always welcome (I'm not a developer here, but I do know the developers  
are very responsive to requests and patches.)

Jack