[Users] Two instances of Claws Mail?

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:33:17 +0530
"Abhay S. Kushwaha" <kushwaha at netsolutionsindia.com> dijo:

>On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:46:53 -0700, John wrote:
>
>> 1) I have the university account (still in Google webmail) set to
>> check for mail every ten minutes. I have my other accounts (in
>> Claws Mail) set to check for mail only manually. It appears that
>> the option for this in Claws Mail is a global option; that is, I
>> cannot set one account to check every ten minutes and the others on
>> a different schedule or manually. Or is there such an option? If
>> so, where is it?
>
>There's no way to set different email checking time for different
>accounts. However, what you can do is set one account to check
>automatically and the other one not to. Then, go to Message ->
>Receive -> (Second Account Name) to manually retrieve mails whenever
>you want to download mails off of that account.
>
>> when I delete the mail in Claws Mail I need
>> Claws Mail to then go out and delete that mail from the university
>> server.
>
>That's an IMAP feature. Not possible for POP without massive
>client-side kung-fu. I'm glad the developers of CM don't want to
>"solve" solved problems and haven't added this "feature".
>
>My suggestion: You should access your university account through an
>IMAP account set up on Claws. It will do everything you want it to
>(separate folder structure, keep mails on server, not check
>needlessly, delete when needed, etc.)

I guess now I have to go learn how IMAP works. :(

Oh well. The best education is the kind you get when you need it. :)