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Re: musings about an RB community email client

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Subject: Re: musings about an RB community email client
From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon dot com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:55:26 -0500
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Daniel Greg wrote:
> Out of interest, how do people like multiple accounts handled?
> I'm a big user of multiple accounts, as I'm sure a lot of you are, and  
> I love the way apple mail handles them.
> Buy I was thinking we could extend the hireachy idea a bit and offer  
> folders of inboxes for example.

Thunderbird works okay for me, where it's just a tree that shows the 
state of multiple accounts at a given time.  It also works well in that 
the reply goes to the server of the account I'm currently viewing, so 
"server1" mail goes out "server1"'s SMTP server and "Server2" goes out 
"server2"'s server.  Only problem is if I'm viewing one server's 
contents and compose a message I meant for the other system.  Whoopsie.

One thing I always kind of wished was simpler is a way to use SSH 
tunneling automatically to connect to my remote systems.  I have to do 
it by hand right now (run SSH port redirection to a remote system that 
will then forwards traffic on to the actual mail server).  It encrypts 
data from my workstation to a remote site so it's safe on an untrusted 
network (especially when I'm roaming and using a wireless network), but 
also lets me use local ports away from the standard ports and my local 
client consistently thinks I'm connecting to a "localhost" port so I can 
reconfigure some account settings without worrying about the IP of the 
remote host.  Am I making any sense?

I know, it's a really convoluted special-case thing that only I probably 
use, but I was just sharing the information.  Maybe someone would think 
about better integration for privacy and encryption with this.  I've 
always wanted a mail client that wouldn't make encryption a chore in 
email for both the sender and receiver.
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