Re: Two different IMAP accounts from one server

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Putting an `imap' entry in mail-sources means to fetch mail from the
>> IMAP server and to store it in your local home dir, outside of the
>> IMAP server.
>
> If you do this, and say, also have a pop source in your mail-sources,
> how do you split to your local folders?  Do you need to have two sets of
> split rules, one for each server type?  My girlfriend wants exactly this
> set up, and I'm not sure she'll be able to split her mail from the two
> sources with one set of rules.

Both mail sources will be processed with the same set of rules.

That means if you have a rule that splits mail from John into the
group nnml:john, and you have a message from John on the IMAP server
and another on the POP server, then both of them will end up in
nnml:john.

Is this what she wants, or does she want something else?

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