email identity crisis

[Ron Peterson]

I have accounts in several locations.  I used to forward them all to a
single mailbox, but I don't anymore.  Currently, I keep several shells
open in a single KDE konsole, each ssh'd to home/work/consult/etc,
with a mutt session in each.  I'm a recent convert to mutt.  Love it.

I have procmail rulesets for each account to dump spam and otherwise
organize incoming mail.  I use mutt's 'mailboxes' option in my .muttrc
to allow me to easily toggle between "important" mail files.

I don't send everything to one account because, well, I just don't see
much difference between using konsole's shift+rightarrow to switch
between login sessions, and mutt's c+space to switch between
mailboxes.

I /do/ of course forward system notifications from various servers to
my primary accounts.

I also use procmail to copy my incoming mail headers to a perl script
which strips the subject and from header info, constructs an english
sentence, and pipes that into festival.  So I get voice notification
when my mail arrives.  The theory is that this might inhibit
compulsive email checking.  That's the theory...

Mail accounts on machines which I manage are all available via
imap+ssl.  I've also been using imp on my primary work computer, for
web based email access.  Mostly because the people I support want
something like this, and it's my job to provide the service.  I
haven't really found occasion to use it myself.

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