Two completely independent mail accounts?

I would like to setup two completely independent mail accounts. So far, when I setup two accounts, the mailboxes are visible to both accounts, and the inboxes are merged (as well as being independently viewable). I have tried requiring password entry every time for login. In my case, I would like two separate accounts, with full invisibility to each other. One is a work based VPN account, and the other is an AOL account.
Is there a way to do this? There used to be a shareware program called MailSwitch, that has been discontinued, that might have accomplished this.
Thanks
Mike

indeed i do not believe that is possible without a third party plug in, and i do not know of a third party plug in that would do just that in leopard mail.
how about creating a second user on your mac and have one email account in mail.app under one user and the second email account in mail.app under the second user. it is a work around and you would have to toggle back and forth between users, but it is better than not being able to achieve your goal if important to you.
hope this helps

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