On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:46:26PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2002 06:19 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:14:33PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > It's not the bucks. We have used this one common account for
> > > several years and don't want to change it. It would also mean
> > > that friends and family would have to send to two addresses. (You
> > > know how that will go !)
> >
> > I've been wondering this since you first posted: If you've only got
> > one email address, how do you intend to split the mail up between
> > you and your wife? How will the computer know whose mail is whose?
>
> Paul,
>
> By doing something similar to what I do now. Using filters to direct
> the mail into "child" folders. Ex: Suse list. Slug list, Aviation
> list, Porsche list, etc. to my mailbox. Rose Society, Pasco library,
> etc. to her list. All the remaining to go to both of us. That is
> why I like Kmail so much. Very configurable. I have set up her
> "user" account and customized it for her. Graphics viewer to open up
> family pictures, Xmms to open her favorite directories for music, The
> Open Office thing for her minutes of clubs and personal
> correspondence, etc. Very customized and convenient/simple for her
> to access as opposed to the confusing (to her) command line jumble
> when she has to log on to my user account to use or get e-mail.
>
> Is that logical????
Yeah, it makes sense, as long as you _both_ get the "uncategorized"
emails. Of course, that means that "one off" emails will go to both of
you when they really should just go to her alone or you alone. But if
you're comfortable with that, then it'll work.
Mail sorting like this is a job for procmail. I'm not sure how you'd
send a piece of mail to two places at once with procmail, but I'm sure
it can be done.
Paul
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