Re: Seperate 'sets' of mail boxes

Hi all,

Further to this question about having seperate email boxes.

I noticed in the Kmail options, the following ..

  --config <filename>       Use alternative configuration file

If I had (say) 4 different email boxes as follows:

* friends   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/friends
* business   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/business
* other1   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/other1
* other2   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/other2

then could I do this by simply having 4 kmailrc config files, one for each 
email box, appropriately named (say):

kmailrc_friends
kmailrc_business
kmailrc_other1
kmailrc_other2

and then when I run Kmail, it would be of the format

$ kmail --config kmailrc_friends
(etc,etc)

Would this work ?  has anyone else tried to do this sort of thing.

Peter

On Sunday 16 November 2008 23:03:50 Peter777 wrote:
> Found this under the [General] section of kmailrc config file
>
> =====
> folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> =====
>
> what does the '$e' do or indicate, is it some sort of parameter that can be
> parsed ?
>
> Just wondering if it may be some method to have seperate sets of mail
> boxes.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sunday 16 November 2008 21:58:39 Peter777 wrote:
> > Have been using Pegasus Mail for a while, and was able to organise
> > complete sets of folders (and sub-folders) into different mail boxes.
> >
> > This was easily accessed by simply logging in by a username. For example,
> > some mail box sets may be ..
> >
> > * friends
> > * business
> > * other1
> > * other2
> >
> > It was a great way to seperate completely different sets of mail boxes,
> > and each set was stored in different paths. To use the 'friends' mail
> > box, I'd just login to pegasus, passing a username of 'friends', or if no
> > username supplied, it would prompt for one. You could also swap between
> > different mail box sets.
> >
> > I haven't learnt to drive KMail much yet, but it seems there is no
> > ability to have another complete set of mail boxes, is that correct ?
> >
> > There are identities, but that only changes name/email from, etc, this is
> > similar to identities in Pegasus. I have worked out if KMail has the
> > ability to control seperate mail boxes (and then identitities, accounts,
> > folders and sub-folders within each mail box 'set'.
> >
> > Peter