You guys keep suggesting solutions he's pointed out as not part of his desired use case.

It's not the issue of having a secret email account literally - you can easily just make blah112358fibonachisequencecan'tguessthisaddressca nyou*****blah@yahoo.com or something, and share it with only specific contacts. THAT isn't what he's talking about.

You can also log in from the webmail client, but that, is, again, not what he's talking about - he said he doesn't like being logged in through the web client. (Personally, that's exactly what I see as a strength of the N900. I don't need built in email clients, I can just go to the familiar and versatile full web pages, but whatever.)

And, furthermore, putting it in EasyDebian (or another chroot operating system) is only an advantage if Debian/whatever has the feature he's looking for, and it won't kill his battery to have a 'hidden' email client checking in the background, from within EasyDebian.

The point is, he's not looking to hide the email address itself from sight, or from other people knowing that he's got blahblah@blah.com. He's looking for a way to have an email client 'hide' the emails of blahblah@blah.com from view in the UI, without logging him out of blahblah@blah.com. Meanwhile, accounts like blehbloo@blah.com or blahblah@bleh.net stay visible in the same client.

All accounts stay logged in, and all get their new emails like they normally would, but with the option to hide specific accounts and its respective emails from the email client's UI, and suppress any new email notifications for that client, if there are any.

Which is why right now I'm thinking you either change one of the existing email clients to support that feature, or you change one to run silently in the background, and keep your hidden/'secret' accounts signed into that one, while keeping your normal accounts in Modest.

Or, well, you suck it up and keep logging in/out of the accounts you don't want the emails showing up for, if possible with a script to make it faster.