[kdepim-users] Seperate 'sets' of mail boxes

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:46:13 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 November 2008, Peter777 wrote:
> > > Have been using Pegasus Mail for a while, and was able to
> > > organise complete sets of folders (and sub-folders) into
> > > different mail boxes.
> > >
> > > This was easily accessed by simply logging in by a username. For
> > > example, some mail box sets may be ..
> > >
> > > * friends
> > > * business
> > > * other1
> > > * other2
> > >
> > > It was a great way to seperate completely different sets of mail
> > > boxes, and each set was stored in different paths. To use the
> > > 'friends' mail box, I'd just login to pegasus, passing a username
> > > of 'friends', or if no username supplied, it would prompt for
> > > one. You could also swap between different mail box sets.
> > >
> > > I haven't learnt to drive KMail much yet, but it seems there is
> > > no ability to have another complete set of mail boxes, is that
> > > correct ?
> >
> > That is correct. This feature of Pegasus is undoubtly the result of
> > the missing user separation in earlier versions of Windows.
> > Therefore Pegasus (and Netscape and many other Windows apps) added
> > some kind of poor man's user management. Since KMail was originally
> > developed for Unix/Linux systems where user accounts always existed
> > there was no need to add some kind of user management to KMail
> > itself.
>
> Would it be possible, Ingo, for subfolders to inherit settings from
> the parent?  IOW, My KDE-Lists folder has a number of sub-folders. 
> Would it be possible to have a setting that says 'All sub-folders
> under this folder use the Googlemail account to compose, and local
> smtp to send?
>
> I know it's not possible now, but it might be a nice feature to have,
> and I think it would answer Peter's needs, too.

Newly created folders should inherit most of the settings from their 
parent folder. Anything else would be very complicated to set up for 
the user, I think.

Regards,
Ingo
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