Using Mail

On Sep 23, 2007, at 16:09, Riph van den Assum wrote:

> Having several mailaccounts I could use Eudora in two ways:
> One application for 2 or more POP boxes (Personalities) or use
> separate settings in separates maps.
> In this way I could start a specific account and not using the other
> accounts.
> Any idea how to accomplish?

You could set up separate accounts and then set them to offline . . .
putting the one you want to read now online.

You could set up a second user after enabling Fast User
Switching . . . then switch to the other user when you want to read
the other account.

Or . . . you could just set up Mail to read multiple POP and IMAP
accounts (I have a total of 5 accounts setup). In this
situation . . . you get 5 different Inboxes (one for each account)
under the main Inbox in the left hand pane.

I suppose you could also try the new Eudora/Thunderbird/Penelope
combination and see if it offers something similar to what Eudora did
with it's multiple settings files . . . but I'm pretty sure that
Thunderbird doesn't do it that way and I haven't heard many good
things about the new Eudora/Penelope/Thunderbird combination.

On or about 9/23/07 1:09 PM, thus spake "Riph van den Assum"
<rvdassumknoware.nl>:

> I am using Mail and formerly using Eudora.
> Having several mailaccounts I could use Eudora in two ways:
> One application for 2 or more POP boxes (Personalities) or use
> separate settings in separates maps.
> In this way I could start a specific account and not using the other
> accounts.
>
> As for now I do not know how I can use Mail in this way.
> I feel I am obliged to use the one and only programme (although I
> know that I can use that one application for more than POP boxes)
>
> Any idea how to accomplish?

One way is this.

First, in Mail, set up just one POP account.

Now, in System Preferences > Accounts, use your might administrative powers
to make a new User. Now log in as that User and start Mail, and set up the
other POP account.

So from now on, whichever User you log in as, when you use Mail in that
User, you will see only that User's mail account. The really great part is
that you can use Fast User Switching to switch back and forth between the
two users instantly; you don't really have to keep logging in and out.

m.

On 2007-09-24, at 18:35, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> The really great part is that you can use Fast User Switching to
> switch back and forth between the
> two users instantly

Or you can install the free Vine Server software on one account and
set up a remote desktop session to it from the other account with the
free Chicken of the VNC--so you can have windows to both mail
programs on the screen at a time. Particularly useful if your
accounts are p/w protected.

(Although my preference is multiple inboxes in the same mail program)

Good evening,

On 23/9/07 at 1:09 PM -0700, Riph van den Assum <rvdassumknoware.nl> wrote:

>As for now I do not know how I can use Mail in this way.
>I feel I am obliged to use the one and only programme (although I
>know that I can use that one application for more than POP boxes)
>
>Any idea how to accomplish?

Switch-a-Roo might help.


Charlie