[plug] operating multiple e-mail clients

[Alan Graham]

I may have misunderstood, but I think that when kmail 'goes into'
/home/daniel/Mail/
it's getting the mail from there.  kmail itself (ie, the executable) is
in /usr/bin on my system, YMMV.  kmail probably writes a file to your
home directory (or maybe creates a directory for config files), but this
will be separate to ~daniel/Mail.

You should be able to fire up any client, and have any of them look at
the same mailbox.  This is a Good Thing(tm), as you don't have to find
which mailbox you kept what email in.  You just have to tell each client
which mailbox you want to use.

As an aside, use evolution.  I've tried Balsa, kmail and evolution
recently, and evolution is streets ahead.  Balsa's imap support is
...flakey...  kmail is klunky, evolution just works.

Alan

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:36, Daniel wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am using kmail and it goes into    
> '/home/daniel/Mail/'
> 
> I thought it should be a simple matter to alter this so it went into    
> '/home/daniel/kmail/Mail'
> so that I can then install Balsa and then Evolution etc so as to try 
> different mail clients.  Is this possible? (I've looked without success)
> 
> The other way is to set up different users specially for the task
> and 'su user' into them.  It seems 'a kludge' - but is it the best way?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Daniel.
>