[X-Apps] Panther Mail

[Frank M Flynn]

OK - I think I understand; but I just did this and it seems to work for 
me.  I set up several account on the same server and then on different 
servers with the same user name in all cases I could put whatever test 
name I wanted in and it did show up in the pop up.  These would be the 
"Full Name" field in the accounts window under preferences.

For my wife and myself we had always had different OS accounts 
(different logins to OS X).   So our email names never got messed up 
but switching was painful -- This new quick switch is super cool, it's 
almost worth setting up a second account so you can switch between 
them.

The only problem now is sharing our address book and  this  is subtle 
but irritating; that is it fights over the "My Card" entry.  Whomever 
set it last tends to reset the others.  The problems is Chat (and I 
thought there is a second one but I can't remember  it) will use "My 
Card" as your identity.

Frank

PS. I messed up your addresses below in a vain attempt to defeat 
Spammers.

On Oct 26, 2003, at 8:54 PM, hart at nasw.or wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Frank Flynn wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  I have multiple accounts - each with 
>> it's own (different) full name.
>>
>
> I have several accounts too. I mean that in an earlier version of 
> Mail, you could have different full names, associated with different 
> e-mail addresses, on *the same* account. Eudora can do this as well. 
> That function broke in one version of Mail. It no longer causes any 
> problem, but still doesn't function.
>
> For example:
>
> Karen Hart <hart at olympus.ne>
> Stephen Hart <hart at nasw.or>
>
> are both on the same account.
>
> As it is now, the Account drop-down lists
> hart at olympus.net
> hart at nasw.org
> Stephen Hart <webmaster at eugrah.co>
> Stephen Hart <stephenhart at mac.co>
>
> The first two return addresses are on the same account. The third and 
> fourth are second and third accounts respectively. Mail will not let 
> you set up two accounts with the same server. (Well, actually, I 
> haven't tried with the new version, but I suspect that hasn't 
> changed.)
>