On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Bob S wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 04:05:01 am Will Stephenson wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Constantinos Maltezos said: ------------snip----------
Yes Will. I download (popped) mail to my kmail. Now I want to forward some of the mail to my wife. Same computer, different user account with her own kmail. She will not download mail from our joint email address because she doesn't want "all that other garbage" I get. (quite a bit) Just wants stuff that pertain to her interests. So it is up to me to screen the mail and give her her stuff. I've been printing her stuff and leaving it for her but that is really getting old. Not to mention the wasted paper.
Quoting your first message I know that I could probably do it with postfix or whatever but would like to keep life simple and just use kmail. This is the solution I would use... Set up a gmail account for your wife and have her use that for her regular mail, then you can forward the mail you recieve (and that she wants) to her gmail address. I use kmail to manage my gmail with no problems. Problem solved ............................................................................................. Consider what follows to be a thought experiment. I don't know if it would really work but I don't see why it wouldn't. I'd be interested to hear what others think about this idea but I won't waste much time defending it. (If I knew what I was doing I'd probably set up postfix or whatever the proper tool is :) If you try this then back up things you don't want to lose first. I am sure there are security risks to what I am going to suggest but for a personal computer that is shared w/ your wife they may be acceptable. I am also IGNORING one possible problem, that is the kmail lock file ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock I am thinking that by only having yourself download the mail this might not be an issue. I don't know... 1) Set your wifes kmail preferences so that she does not download mail. 2) Set your preferences to automatically download your mail on a regular basis (so she doesn't need to). 3) Create a new folder in your kmail "Wifes Name" 4) Stop both instances of kmail 5) set up a group "our_mail" with yourself and your wife as members (you can do this w/ yast) 6) Change the permissions of your ~/Mail so that the group is "our_mail" rather than "users" 7) Give write access to your ~/Mail (and to the files and directories beneath it to the group "our_mail" (rather than "users"). (This can be done w/ konqueror's properties -> permissions Dialog, make the owner and group permissions (rwxrwxr-x) put a checkmark next to "Apply...to all folders and their contents" and apply. 8) rename your wifes ~/Mail to something like ~/mail.orig she won't have access to her old messages but there is probably a way to import them if you want. 9) Create a link from home/your_account/Mail to /home/wifes account/Mail (Basically linking her ~/Mail folder to your ~/Mail folder) From now on just filter, drag or copy your wifes mail to her folder Now your wife should be able to read the mail from her folder and ignore the stuff (other folders) she doesn't care about. She will be able to read any mail in your mailbox so you might want a web based mailbox for all of your Victoria's Secret emails ;-) Any filters that you want to use for incoming mail will have to be set up in your account but either one of you should be able to delete or move messages. As I said at the start, this is just an idea. Its probably best to go the gmail rout or learn about postfix but this might just work See ya -- dh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org