Re: How to create independant pop/smtp/mbox accounts

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Jack a écrit :
> On 2017.11.24 00:27, andré via balsa-list wrote:
> [snip....]
>
> > > > 2) I'm migrating from Mozilla (which uses mbox), where I link each pop account with its' own smtp account 
> > > > (with the same id + password), and own mbox folder tree.
> > > > I would prefer using the same configuration for Balsa.
> > > I don't think you can quite do that.  You can use an Identity to refer to a set of pop and smtp credentials, 
> > > but ALL retrieved mail goes into the Inbox.
> > I was hoping that I could have a separate inbox for each pop account.
> > I created a separate account just for Mageia due to getting problems from too many emails being filtered from 
> > an inbox with my other software-oriented email.
> I currently fetch pop3 mail from five different places, and I have 36 filters to sort it out into folders for 
> each mailing list and various different financial accounts.
> Most just filter on a combination of To: and From: headers; a few need additional criteria.

I've started looking at the procmail documentation.
Looks like I'll be able to do what I want.
Nice that filters can be nested.  Mozilla mail filter doesn't allow that.
> > > You can use filters to move mail from Inbox to the identity specific folder based on the "To:" address,
> > > although that won't quite work if you have another alias receiving mail at the same address.
> > > (For example, my users.sourceforge.net address is only a redirect to my main ISP mailbox, and I have several 
> > > others which do the same.
> > > Also, mailing lists have a To: of the list address, not your actual email.)
> > That could work for incoming mail, since I don't do redirection.
> > (Except for certain mostly spam, which doesn't have my email address in the "To" field.)
> > However, that makes filtering a lot more complex, since for most of my 5 accounts I filter to many different 
> > mailboxes.
> It's not really more comples.  If you would have six filters for each of 5 accounts/mailboxes, now you just 
> have 30 filters and maybe each needs one more criteria than it would have.

I see now.  (Although I have a lot more than 30 filters.)
> > It also requires selecting the outgoing smtp accounts, instead of them being automatically associated to the 
> > incoming account.
> You can set a personality on each folder to set the smtp to use when composing a message (or replying to on) 
> in that folder.
Good

> (I'm also thinking of filing a wish list so that Balsa will always use the outgoing smtp account to match the 
> domain of the To: address.
> This would help when I reply to a message still in the Inbox, so it doesn't just use the default smtp account.
That would be an excellent.  What would be normally wanted, in my view.

> > It makes me wonder how difficult it would be for Balsa to implement a separate set of base mbox folders for 
> > each pop account ...
> > (If that is ever seriously considered, I'd be willing to help ...)
> Feel free to file a wish-list request at bugs.gnome.org so at least the issue is not forgotten.
> As with most FLOSS software, patches are always welcome (I'm not a developer here, but I do know the 
> developers are very responsive to requests and patches.)

Will do.  It seems to me the biggest weakness of Balsa relative to Mozilla family email clients.

Thanks again.  Without your help, I would probably have never figured out how to configure Balsa as I want.
> Jack

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André