Re: Linux Mail Client

["Matthew Sackman" <matthew@sackman.co.uk>]

> > Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote:
> > > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail
> > > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with
> > > one instance of a program.
> >
> >     Convenience.  There is no good reason not to, really.  Why should I
> have
> > to use two when one is perfectly acceptable?  The distinction is that
the
> > program itself is able to handle the split whereas most cannot.
>
> I would be rather surprised if the new KMail couldn't handle things as you
> want (though I haven't fully tried it), however, this will not help you if
> you do not use X. I think that it is slightly unreasonable to expect to be
> able to keep two email accounts separate on your local machine and yet
> demand to be able to access both through a single instance of your MUA. To
> me, it would seem far more logical to access both local mail boxes
through,
> if not separate accounts, then through separate instances of your MUA.

Sorry, I'm pretty certain I mean mail client instead of MUA in the above
paragraph.

Matthew