[X Newbies] Follow up to HUUUGE Bug in Apple Mail

[cricket]

> Hi all
>
> Either nobody here uses Apple Mail, or I'm the only one running into 
> problems... or I'm doing something wrong. If anyone could point me to 
> the right direction, I'd be very thankful.
>
> Bear with me a second, I think I have found what causes the problem :
> (BTW : I have just reinstalled Mac OS X (wiped the drive clean and did 
> a full install plus updates) so I should now have a fairly cosher 
> system.)
>
> I need to have multiple accounts with multiple identities for my work. 
> I therefore have created different accounts all with the same POP and 
> SMTP settings but with different identities (the email address and the 
> description are different).
>
> Account 1:
> description : John Doe from Home
> email addr. : john_home at doe.com
> full name : john doe
> pop : mail.doe.com
> username : john.doe
> smtp : mail.doe.com
>
> Account 2:
> description : John Doe from Work
> email addr. : john_work at doe.com
> full name : Doe Corp.
> pop : mail.doe.com
> username : john.doe
> smtp : mail.doe.com
>
> Apparently the fact that the two accounts use the same POP settings 
> confuses Apple Mail. The messages in the InBox are flagged as 
> belonging to the two accounts. If you delete one of the accounts, all 
> messages belonging to that account are deleted from the Inbox....
>
> It would be good if, in the next version of Apple Mail, the action of 
> deleting (or modifying) an account in the Preferences Pane would not 
> affect the messages already downloaded from the POP

When you delete an account, the sheet that comes down is pretty clear 
about what will happen when you delete the account:

----
Are you sure you want to remove the account “...”?

This will erase all mailboxes for this account, but will not affect any 
messages stored on your mail server.
----

FWIW, you don't need to configure two accounts when you only have one 
account. You can put two email addresses in the Email Address field, 
separated by commas. Or, if you want to have separate full names, you 
can leave the Full Name field blank and enter this in the Email Address 
field for your one account:

Doe Corp <john_work at doe.com>, John Doe <john_home at doe.com>

This is documented in Mail Help.

- cricket