From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84177 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: michael.zombok@googlemail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Ways of selectively accessing only certain mail accounts? (Profiles?) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:20:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vbwv3li9.fsf@building.gnus.org> <844n4fvb3n.fsf@davestoy.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391498708 16194 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 07:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 07:25:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32429=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 04 08:25:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNd-0003jb-LS for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:25:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNc-0006YD-OP for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:25:12 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNa-0006Y7-Qv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:25:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNW-0000Kb-Md for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:25:10 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNV-0005DL-D7 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:25:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAaNU-0003f3-IV for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from michael.zombok by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:25:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cH8Wq67MyPFbWMRRdysJuE0CWrk= X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84177 Archived-At: 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. Dave> Back when I could use my work computer for both work and Dave> personal email I used to use something like this: Dave> (cond ((string= (getenv "WHEREAMI") "work") (; set up select Dave> methods, outgoing mail server etc for work email)) (t (; set Dave> up select methods, outgoing mail server etc for personal Dave> email))) Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. Making the select methods, etc. environment specific would be a good thing to do. I will think about it. I am also thinking about going one step further and even have to seperate user accounts / logins. Then I could seperate not only mails but also directories, window managener preferences, etc. ... have to think about it. Best, Michael