Re: Bug#152985: offlineimap: Spooling many accounts into one maildir

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:58:57AM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:

> Offlineimap can already handle mails from different accounts being put
> into the same Maildir (because they have a unique FMD5).  If you also
> encoded the account name in the file name, it would be possible to spool
> mail from different accounts into one maildir, so I can read my various
> mail accounts without having to change folders all the time.

This does sound like a good idea.  It should be fairly easy to do in the
folder/Maildir.py side (just make it ignore messages from a different
account).  Do you have any suggestions as to how to do this from a
configuration standpoint?  Should we just have it not complain if two
different account's mailboxes happen to go to the same place?

One pitfall: when a message is copied into this "shared folder" locally by
your mail reader, how do we know which account to upload it to?

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John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>                       www.complete.org