[svlug] is nmh (new MH) multi-identity capable?

[John Conover]

Hi Eric. I still use VM. VM is maintained by someone else now, and
some changes were made that didn't work for me, (maybe my fault.) I
contacted the original author, Kyle E. Jones, via kyle_jones at
wonderworks dot com and he was kind enough to work up some fixes for
me.

Really nice guy-I know how he feels when one wants to move on, but
can't shirk responsibilities of creating something thats used by
others.

I use VM with multiple addresses, (conover at rahul.net,
john at johncon.com,) by having two accounts on the machine, and run an
eternal ssh(1) tunnel for emacs(1) daemons in both accounts.

    John

Eric De Mund writes:
> 
> I'm an Emacs user who's contemplating transitioning to nmh (with MH-E)
> for email, from VM 7.19[2]. VM has long worked for me, but it's time to
> enter the 2010's from the 2000's; in particular, VM doesn't support mul-
> tiple email identities. My use case is that of a typical desktop machine;
> I don't have a local SMTP daemon running, but instead use Emacs's own
> smtpmail-sent-it. Presently, I'm sending and fetching mail for my second
> identity via a web browser, but I want to get away from that.
> 
> I'll need to configure, of course, a separate set of SMTP and POP/IMAP
> hosts for each identity. Can this be done with nmh? My initial read is
> of their FAQ and mailing list archives is that the answer is, "Yes, but
> sort of as a kludge, as mh was originally designed in the days when this
> wasn't something users were needing."
> 
> If there's anyone here who's presently doing this, I'd be grateful to
> learn if all that's required for multiple email identities is appropri-
> ate configuration of the two files /etc/nmh/mts.conf and ~/.mh_profile.
> 
> Much obliged,
> Eric
> 
> p.s. I'm not wedded to nmh; I might also try NotMuch[3] or mu4e[3]. My
> requirement is only that I be able to do my emailing from within Emacs
> in an xterm. So I'd also welcome your general thoughts here. Because,
> who knows, I might try nmh if it works and simply find it not to my
> liking.
> 
> p.p.s. I'm not even *really* wedded to needing multiple email identities
> per single (Unix) user identity. It's not a showstopper for me to create
> another user and work that way, I just prefer not to have to do so.
> 
> Again, many thanks. --Eric
> 
> notes
> [1] nmh
>     https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
> 
> [2] VM 7.19
>     http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/
> 
> [3] Emacs Wiki :: Category Mail
>     https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail
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