Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-31 Thread chombee
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 01:14:23PM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > you could perhaps also set up a small mail watcher in your panel/dock/taskbar > whatever it's called on the OS/WM you're using. ;-) Yeah, there are gnubiff, mail notification, etc. > > For some reason I want mutt to be able to do w

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-31 Thread chombee
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:27:06AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > You should look a "man bash" for "mail" and "mailpath" shell variables. > They will notify you when configured locations receive new mail. Interesting! Unfortunately I use fish not bash, and the bash feature looks like it supports

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Gray
On Fri 29, Jan'10 at 12:01 PM +, chombee wrote: This seems to be an alright solution. It keeps the muttrc files nice and simple (no hooks). It's nice to be able to launch all three mutt instances (and offlineimap also) with a single 'screen' command. On the downside, you can't see when there

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* chombee [01-29-10 07:02]: > > When I have a desktop window manager available I started doing something > similar. Just have a script (bound to a keyboard shortcut maybe) that > launches all three instances of mutt plus offlineimap in different > windows on a workspace. Since you can see all the

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Joost Kremers
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:01:25PM +, chombee wrote: > This seems to be an alright solution. It keeps the muttrc files nice and > simple (no hooks). It's nice to be able to launch all three mutt > instances (and offlineimap also) with a single 'screen' command. On the > downside, you can't see

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-29, chombee wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:20:44AM +, chombee wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45:34AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: >> >>> each ~/.muttrc-* contains just the settings for the specific >>> account and then it sources ~/.muttrc, which contains general >>> setti

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread chombee
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:20:44AM +, chombee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45:34AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > > i have three IMAP accounts and simply run three mutt instances within > > screen. my > > ~/.screenrc contains (something similar to) the following lines: > > > > =

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2009-12-28 Thread chombee
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45:34AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > i have three IMAP accounts and simply run three mutt instances within screen. > my > ~/.screenrc contains (something similar to) the following lines: > > > > screen -t "Local" mu

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2009-12-21 Thread Joost Kremers
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:10:35PM +, chombee wrote: > That means that for every variable I set in a muttrc.accountX file > (and I have several of these files) I have to include a default case > in the master muttrc file, or I'll get unexpected behaviour. This is > a recipe for disaster, at som

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Gray
On Fri 18, Dec'09 at 7:10 PM +, chombee wrote: That means that for every variable I set in a muttrc.accountX file (and I have several of these files) I have to include a default case in the master muttrc file, or I'll get unexpected behaviour. This is a recipe for disaster, at some point I

Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2009-12-18 Thread chombee
I use mutt with several different email accounts. Currently I have a different muttrc file for each account: muttrc.account1, muttrc.account2, etc. and I launch mutt specifying one of these muttrc files with -F. I know how to create a master ~/.muttrc file with folder-hooks that source each o