[imp] Managing multiple email accounts

[Atif Ghaffar]

Quoting rob@myinternetplace.net:

> Quoting Alexander List <list@cnsystems.at>:
>
> > The ability to manage multiple accounts, with passwords stored in the
> > database and one "primary" account used to log in to imp, would be a
> > great step forward in eliminating proprietary clients like Outlook,
> > replacing them with open source solutions.

Yes, it would be a step in the good direction.
I manage atleast two mail accounts for myself. (A business account and a
personal account).
I used to have one account for mailing lists etc too but now I recieve mailing
lists on my personal account(atif@developer.ch).

So, with IMP I have to keep two windows open and its kind of confusing.
I am very eager to see a version that can manage multiple accounts.


Both Netscape and Mozilla have possibilities to setup multiple mail accounts.
but Netscape something that I dont like about Netscape mail are: (just in case
if the developers are thinking in moving in that direction)

1. There is only 1 from address which goes to all outgoing mails.
    So all mails I send to *@lists.horde.org from my NetscapeMail client are
    rejected because my "From" address is different than that one I have used to
    subscribe to the mailing lists.
    I think the from address should be attached to MailAccount, so If I am using
    MailAccountA, it should send the From header that I have set in MailAccountA's
    preferences.
    It would make sense to also have global preference which should be used in
absense of a
    MailAccount specific preference

2. Sent mail should go in the MailAccount's Sent folder.
    I have two accounts set and if I send an email, a copy ends up in only one
Sent folder
    And that the wrong server's sent folder :(

3.  filters should be mail account specific too. (Dont just filter all incoming
mails )

4. Alexandre suggested to have one primary account for authentification.
    Perhaps just have an internal database for authentification and each account
has its own
    user/pass pair.   (For example, if the primary account server is down, you
cannot read any email)





just my 4 dollars.


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Atif Ghaffar
http://atif.developer.ch

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