Re: Mutt, multiple accounts problems
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Kabel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not so new to mutt, and i really like it.
> I'm trying to make it work with multiple imaps & pop3 accounts, but I get a
> lot of problems. So I would be pleased if someone could give me a tip. Even
> after finding some example I didn't managed to make it work :S
>
> I'm completely lost now, I tried to make it work the whole day, and failed
> miserably.
> So my last hope is this mailing list.
> Does somebody could show me his .muttrc where he's accessing more than one
> mail server? I would be very happy for this help.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Kabel
I use fetchmail to get my mail from multiple accounts and procmail to filter
it into separate mbox files, that I then read with mutt. Although as others
have suggested getmail4 seems popular.
I am also interested to know how others solve the multiple account issue for
sending mail. In my case, I use mutt with exim.
My configuration involves a script that I call as a macro from within mutt,
that reconfigures and restarts exim4 each time I want to change the account
that I send from. This seems a bit crazy to me, but it works reliably.
The reason I do it this way is that I found when using exim4 with a single
smarthost, using the "my_hdr From: email@address" approach to writing a
different From: email address did not work. The From: field gets overwritten
down the line.
What other ways do people use to change the email account that they are
sending from within mutt, and if anyone has improvements for my approach I
am happy to hear them.
Kind Regards,
Jaime
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Jaime Tarrant