Re: Considering returning to Eudora
- From: Bill Cole <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:55 GMT
In article <45fbef75$0$7465$9a6e19ea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Wolf <ElLoboViejo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BoomTown wrote:
Unless I'm missing something here, I do this with Eudora by doubleclicking
on the mail box, it will fetch mail for only that box. In the preference
you can check off only those accounts you want to check on manual checks and
if you want to automatically check them.
OK, sounds good.
If its an IMAP server, then you can pick specific mailboxes within the
account to check.
We seem to be using "mailbox" and "account" differently. For me, they
are synonyms: each account has one and only one mailbox. Maybe it's the
'personalities' feature of Eudora that is causing this confusion. By
"mailbox within the account" do you mean "personality?"
No, a Eudora "personality" is just about the same thing as what you are
calling an "account" in that it has distinct settings for incoming and
outgoing mail servers, email address, and a long list of other tweakable
settings (most of which are not presented in the UI anywhere and no one
much cares about.)
Eudora's local message storage is in mailboxes, including single "In,"
"Out," "Junk," and "Trash" mailboxes that are used for all personalities
that use POP3 for incoming mail. Filters are used to sort incoming mail
into any other local mailboxes that you want to have. If you really want
all mail aimed at a particular address to land in its own distinct
mailbox, the filter for that would be extremely simple.
For personalities that use IMAP, Eudora presents a direct view of the
mailboxes that exist in an IMAP account, on the IMAP server. There is a
local cache of messages, but since IMAP is designed to have the server
store messages, Eudora presents whatever set of mailboxes the server
shows in that account.
My e-mail service provides up to six accounts for a flat rate, billed to
me (the master account.) Is this what you mean by "mailboxes within an
account?"
My e-mail service gives me up to six accounts for single flat rate. Is
this what you mean by "mailboxes within an account?"
No. IMAP supports multiple server-side mailboxes (sometimes called
"folders") associated with one user account, and they get messages into
them based either on server-side filtering rules applied as they arrive
or due to client actions (which can be manual or programmatic.) For
example, I have IMAP mailboxes for various mailing lists that I'm on,
and Eudora's filters move incoming mail from the IMAP Inbox to the oher
mailboxes, leaving the messages in the account so that I can also access
them (sorted into their particular mailboxes) from the somewhat weaker
IMAP client on my Treo.
Most ISP's offer POP3 instead of IMAP, so you probably don't need to
consider the concept of an account having an arbitrary multitude of
mailboxes.
For each account, I specify the servers, identities, and passwords. In
Mac's Mail, each account can be excluded from automatic mail fetch on
start up, or from automatic checking, but when I manually fetch, all
accounts receive mail, which is not what I want.
Each personality in Eudora has its own incoming and outgoing settings
and can be independently set for its own auto-check schedule or for
inclusion in the manual fetch of mail. If a personality is not set for
automatic checking or manual checking, you can only get its new mail by
specifically selecting it for a check in the Personalities list or
holding down the option key and using the "Check Mail" command, which
offers you a list of personalities to check.
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Now where did I hide that website...
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