Re: Alternative Identities

[Cristóbal Palmer <cmpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Dale Harris wrote: 
> 
> Frankly (being an armchair coder here), mutt I think needs to be
> re-engineered how it handles multiple accounts, it becoming a real PITA.
> There should be separate menu for this and a clean way to have it
> configured.  This is the one thing that might finally drive me away from
> mutt if it isn't fixed. 
> 
> Just my 2 cents...

My very-lazy-sysadmin solution, in honor of Sysadmin Appreciation Day[0].

1) fire up gnu screen(1)
2) mutt -F /path/to/some/muttrc
3) ^ac to open a new screen window
4) mutt -F /other/account/muttrc
5) profit

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal Palmer
ibiblio.org systems administrator

[0] http://www.sysadminday.com/