On Sat 23 April 2005, 0:23:34 +1000, Thomas Fernandez wrote: RA>> I have a single email address at which I receive both personal and RA>> business email. I use Popfile and a filter to separate the two sets of RA>> mail and want to store each in a separate tree of folders. > > That you use a filter already suggests that there is an indication in > the header by which you can seperate them automatically.
Yes, Popfile does that for me with very high accuracy RA>> I also want to use separate templates for sending email from the two RA>> accounts, although they will go via the same SMTP server. > > If you have set up two accounts, the mails are already seperated in > TB. You just define the different templates. No, sorry, my mistake. I meant that I want to use separate templates for business and personal email even though they go via the same SMTP server and have the same From address. This is the critical thing I want to achieve. RA>> I could set up a new account for one of them and set it up to never RA>> check mail. That would allow me to use completely separate templates for RA>> business and personal outgoing mail. > > Yes, this sounds sensible. I would (as you probably understood) do this by filtering one set of email, on the basis of the Popfile classification, from the account that receives email to the one that doesn't. RA>> However it would mean I would have to set outgoing mail to RA>> immediate send. This is probably not a major problem, but it is RA>> not my usual way of doing it. > > This is where it gets tricky, because TB allows "regular check" but > not "regular send". I have set my accounts to "regular check" and > "combined". If you are comfortable with "immediate send", then use > that. And that is the main problem with this approach. RA>> I could have two separate folder sub-trees in one account, but that RA>> would appear to make separate templates for business and personal RA>> outgoing mail difficult to manage. > > No, you can use folder templates. But folder templates apply just to the folder they are set for, not for all subfolders of the parent. That means that each time a create a new folder in (for example) the business folder tree, I would have to remember to set the folder templates. If they were an inherited attribute, so that new folders inherited the templates of their parent folder, that would be very different. > My suggestion would be to use different email addresses, of course. Yes, that would make things easier, but the email address I use matches both my name and my company name, so works for both personal and business. If I changed it I would need to change the usage of either my friends or my business clients. -- Robin Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
