Subject: What's the use of having multiple INBOXes?

From: [email-masked] (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
Date: 12 Oct 1994 19:27:58 +0200

Could someone please enlighten me on what is the use of being able to
have multiple incoming mailboxes (INBOXes)?

At the moment I have 6 email addresses.  5 of them have been forwarded
to one single place using the sendmail ~/.forward file.

If I have understood correctly, with Pine I could trash the .forward
file and read all my 6 incoming folders directly using IMAP servers.

But what do I gain from the change?  I can understand that if e.g. I
would be reading my university mailbox from my work, it would be nice
to be able to respond to the messages so that the sender would be my
university account, instead of my corporate account.  And vice versa.
However, I don't think Pine can do such a thing.

I'm just asking because I always like to take full advantage of all
the features of the programs I work with: so why should I use multiple 
INBOXes?
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From: Jeff Traigle <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT)

> have multiple incoming mailboxes (INBOXes)?

The most obvious reason to me is for those people who have addresses from 
which they can't create a .forward file. Just because a person has an 
email address, doesn't mean they have a login account.

> However, I don't think Pine can do such a thing.

Separating your email like this could be another reason to have multiple 
inboxes. The limitation you mention, as far as I know, is correct. The 
Pine team want to make context-sensitive Reply-to: fields part of a 
future release? :)

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From: [email-masked] (Mark T.B. Carroll)
Date: 13 Oct 1994 15:53:49 GMT

Well, I'm on several systems, and usually have my mail redirected to one,
but if that one goes down then all I have to do is cancel mail redirection
elsewhere and Pine's already set up to look in the other INBOXes. Also,
some (ancient) systems don't have mail redirection facilities anyway.