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From: Woody on 30 Jun 2010 03:09 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > > > On 29/06/2010 21:50, Andy Hewitt wrote: > > > Trying to manage a mix of POP and IMAP accounts in Thunderbird, along > > > with multiple addresses also seems somewhat messy, not to mention the > > > lack of more than one signature. > > > > I commented on that before. You can only have one signature per identity > > but you can have multiple identities per account, each with different > > signatures. Switching between them is as simple as selecting a different > > identity from the drop down at the top of the new message. The signature > > changes on the fly without messing up any message text already written. > > Righto, understood. Still not as simple as Mail though. > > It can get very messy indeed if you have an account with many aliases, > for example. I have four on my MobileMe account, which would need 16 > identities to implement all the signatures I have. > > With Mail, I have a single identity, the aliases are simply added on the > 'Email Address' line, seperated by commas, and one set of signatures can > be applied to any, or all accounts, as appropriate. Mail on the other hand can have problems with multiple users on one address though although it has got better at it. I still use it as I haven't found anything that is a better fit overall. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Andy Hewitt on 30 Jun 2010 03:39
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: [..] > > With Mail, I have a single identity, the aliases are simply added on the > > 'Email Address' line, seperated by commas, and one set of signatures can > > be applied to any, or all accounts, as appropriate. > > Mail on the other hand can have problems with multiple users on one > address though although it has got better at it. I've never found it a problem here. Indeed, I thought the way it does work was very simple and neat. > I still use it as I haven't found anything that is a better fit overall. Yup, that's pretty much the same for me. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |