separate instances of Thunderbird or Kmail

[Chris Jones]

> 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 ;-)

I see ;)

In which case you could set up your list accounts to not be downloaded 
automatically, only when you explicitly request them. Would that be 
enough to prevent you getting sucked in to reading them ?