Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))
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Monday, August 21, 2000, 2:01:38 PM, Mike wrote:
> Oh, you meant actually send it out through different servers? I thought you
> were just meaning the message addressing - i.e. what From: line is used.
> Seems I misunderstood exactly what you meant.
Gah, sorry for the tone.
This might not be what the original author intended so.... don't associate
me with him. However, this is what I see as a failing.
Complete mail account separation. Different incoming and outgoing
servers, different preferences, different folders, different filters, all down
the line. The only common theme should be, IMHO, the interface.
The basic question is, of course, why should one have access to different
accounts in a single application? In fact, it has been asked and answered
flippantly. Let me give a better answer.
On my local machine I have, say, the account grey. At work I have
slamb3. On my friend's machine I have morpheus. The latter two do not have
mappings into the local machine nor should they. They also should not be
forced into the local machine's account since they are separate accounts. I
may or may not have access to shells on those machines but I /do/ have acccess
to POP and SMTP. It seems logical, to me, that a client (not MUA, I now,
after a few years, regard the two as different entities) should be able to
keep those account separate internally when needed.
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