[MlMt] Running one mail account completely separate from others

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Dec 22 11:26:43 EST 2020


On 22 Dec 2020, at 8:58, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> I have a number of email accounts but I would like to run one account 
> completely separate from other account, like "this is the only account 
> currently visible for MailMate". This to avoid some mistakes that 
> could have some undesirable consequences. I don't mind quitting 
> MailMate switching from one configuration (with all email accounts 
> except one) to another (with only one account), in fact this would be 
> perfect for me.
>
> I assume this isn't possible in an easy way, but in case I'm wrong I 
> would like to know how to do it. My current solution is simply to use 
> Mail for that account ... but if I could use MailMate for all of them, 
> great.
>

Depending on your needs and mail load, you might find it easiest
to use a different application for the second account—Mail.app,
etc. But that only works well when the secondary account has much
less traffic, little enough that MailMate's advanced feature aren't as
important.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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