On 8/10/2011 1:44 AM, phanisvara das wrote:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:11:31 +0530, ianseeks <ianseeks@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
I have 3 activities, work, personal and mailing lists each using different email addresses. At the moment i've separated them by creating 3 KDE users so i have to login and out of each of them. I saw a possibility of activities allowing me to have only one KDE login and 3 separate activities. Within each activity i'd have an instance of kontact/kmail configured for the correct email addresses/contacts etc so it was just a matter of changing activity instead of logging in and out a few times. Pure laziness on my part but i thought it made Activities useful for me but as it cant have separate instances of programs I don't really see its useful to me without being overkill.
as became clear from a separate discussion within this thread, you can do what you want by starting kmail for a different user, from within your present user session, using this command:
kdesu -u <your other user> kmail &
still, it would be much easier if you simply set up different "identities" within kmail. then you can choose, for every mail you send, from which email address it will originate; no need to use different sessions or user accounts for that.
Apparently this is not acceptable to the original poster, but for the record I want to add one correction to your last sentence Phanisvara... For each account/identity you handle within Kmail you can set the default email address and even the outbound transport from which it will originate, so you don't have to make this selection each time you send mail. This is exactly the same as Thunderbird or course. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org