Re: [Sheflug] EMacs for mail - nearly there!!!

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Jos? Luis G?mez Dans (j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:37:34PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >     g> And can one work with multiple mail-folders in emacs?
> > 
> > Right now I only have nine open.  Most days that gets up to 14 or so
> > at some point during the day (I have three to-do lists that are mail
> > folders).
> 
> 	One thing that I couldn't suss out with suss out with  no mailer
> (and this includes VM, which I use every now and then) is how to have
> "clever From:-ness". That is, I might want to use address1 [at] ad1.com for
> messages to sheflug, and address2 [at] ad15.com for messages to somewhere
> else. And use my present address as a default. Is this possible under VM
> or mutt? 

You can use folder hooks with mutt. But I dont use them so thats all I
know.  Sorry I cant be more help.
 
> 	Also, what is the optimal way of retrieving mail and having it
> separated? I quite like procmail (doing a fine job at the moment), but I
> read that vm can query my POP accounts and filter mail as well (although
> the filtering might not be as straightforward as procmail's. Need to
> check that, tho'). And another thing: can VM present me with the main
> folder (/var/spool/<username>) with new messages, and then automatically
> go (with a single keypress :D) to the next folder with unread mail?
> 
> 	I just don't know how to phrase these things for xemacs to
> understand me...
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 	José
> 
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