Re: Ways of selectively accessing only certain mail accounts? (Profiles?)

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

michael.zombok@googlemail.com writes:

>     Lars> michael.zombok@googlemail.com writes:
>     >> One thing I was not able to manage with Gnus so far is to
>     >> selectively access only certain mail accounts. The background is
>     >> that I would like to split my private and work related mails,
>     >> hence having something like two seperate Gnus 'profiles' each
>     >> with its own accounts, mails, settings, etc.
>
>     Lars> I think what most people do is just split the mail into
>     Lars> appropriate work/private groups...
>
> yeah, I am already doing this. But I even don't want to see the groups
> (and new mails getting into these groups at the weekend :)

You could use topics to separate Work & Private groups.  And it should
be easy to add some elisp to `gnus-topic-mode-hook' that collapses the
Work topic on weekends automatically (see `gnus-topic-hide-topic').  Of
course, you can still expand it easily again and start working on
weekends...

Bye,
Tassilo