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From: David Aldred 
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Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:43:56 +0000
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Bernard Peek wrote:

> In message , David Aldred
>  writes

>>Bernard, could you remind me (and tell everyone else) how alternate
>>profiles work?
> 
> In addition to being a true multi-user system TP also supports profiles.
> Profiles are what other programs refer to as personalities. Users can
> have a "work" personality that uses their work e-mail address and an
> appropriate .sig message. They can have others for different newsgroups
> or mailboxes.
> 
> In TP the profile chosen affects; from email address, reply-to address,
> destination folder for filed mail, .sig message and message ID domain.
> 
> Each mail folder can have its own default personality, but it is
> possible to override the default. When you have a folder selected and
> create a new email message the message uses that folder's default
> personality but that can be changed before sending the message.

I've just tried something briefly with Claws, so can't be certain that it
works fully - but it does seem to.   You can set up a series of 'accounts'
with the same server details  which are effectively profiles (perhaps best
to set them not to collect mail so that only 'account' actually collects
mail from your server).   

Folders then  can have default accounts associated with them, and the
account carries .sig, from, reply-to etc - just as a profile does in TP.  
Any new mail has the default profile selected as 'sender', but in a
drop-down providing access to all other accounts. 

> 
> Speaking of message folders, TP has a filtering system that allows each
> folder to have its own routing rules configure using either simple
> point-and-click settings or using regexps. Mail delivered to TP first
> goes through the seat-processing rules which determine which user gets
> the message. So, for instance spam messages addressed by anyone can be
> diverted to an administrator. Once delivered to the user the messages go
> through that user's routing rules to decide which folder they end in.
> Message delivery to a folder can trigger events that animate the folder
> icon or play a .wav sound. The appearance of a folder icon changes if it
> contains unread messages.

As far as I can see - and I'm away tomorrow and over part of the weekend so
testing time is limited - this can all be accomplished in Claws fairly
easily (except the actual 'seats' aspect-  it doesn't seem to have
multi-user features, but then nor does the single-user TP!) - the
filtering / pre and post processing looks very powerful.  I have to say I'm
impressed with it. 

-- 
David Aldred
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