[ale] mutiple e-mail address management - kmail

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 10:41:48 EST 2005


I would suggest moving to Thunderbird 1.0. It allows you to pick your
>From address in a drop-down, and will suck all your incoming mail into
one inbox, if you want, or it can use seperate inboxes for the
different accounts.

It's what I use at home, and find it to work really nicely.

WMM


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:30:03 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Jay Loden wrote:
> > Ok, I use kmail, and I have the following problem.  I use multiple
> > e-mail addresses (This one, my school one, and a python-specific
> > email address, etc).  That's fine in the sense that kmail can read
> > all of them as separate accounts.
> >
> > However, when I post to a list, for example, I run into a problem.
> > for ALE I am subscribed as 'jloden at toughguy.net' but for the
> > python list, I am subscribed as 'python at jayloden.com'
> >
> > When I compose/reply to an e-mail, it sends it from "jloden at
> > toughguy.net" or whatever my current Profile is set to as the email
> > address.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can get around this without having to retype
> > my from address every time I message to a different mailing list?  I
> > was even thinking of making a menu for kmail that would let me start
> > kmail with different profiles, but that's an ugly solution, and I
> > can't seem to find anything that lets kmail do that.
> >
> > If you all have no other suggestions, I'll take recommendations for
> > mail clients that handle multiple addresses and mailing lists well.
> 
> I don't use kmail, but with mozilla the From: is a drop down which you
> can choose the addr you use.  I'd simply suggest that you unsub and
> resub the lists under the same id. :)
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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