separate instances of Thunderbird or Kmail

O. Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 11:35:21 UTC 2008


Chris Jones wrote:
>> So I am looking for a way to run a second instance of Thunderbird or 
>> Kmail that is totally separate and "unaware" of the "main" ones. I did 
>> install Clawmail and I dont like it one bit but am using it 
>> nevertheless. I tried Mailody but it does not seem to store retrieved 
>> mails offline so is useless to me.
>>
>> Anyone has ideas of how to achieve this. And please do not suggest Mutt 
>> or other cli - clients, I am far too gui-oriented.
> 
> Hmm. Why not instead of trying to run multiple instances of the same 
> application with different settings, which I suspect is not easy, 
> instead filter your email into different folders. In this way you can 
> simply filter all email from your mailing lists into different folders, 
> and thus not clog up your main inbox.
> 
> Just click on tools -> message filters in TB
> 
Thanks, that can easily be done in both Kontact and TB. Problem is 
hundreds of mail, sometimes from dial-up, and I get hooked reading them 
- cause that is how I am... so it is more ME than the mailclients that 
is not able to filter ;-)





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