From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 22:51:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E75A14F84 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 17580 invoked by uid 374); 3 Oct 1999 05:53:57 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:53:57 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: "Dr. Brain" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging mail from two souces Message-ID: <19991003075357.D47240@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19991002135147.A83943@toxic.magnesium.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991002135147.A83943@toxic.magnesium.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 1999-10-02 (13:51), Dr. Brain wrote: > I want to merge mail from two different sources, one is downloaded through > fetmail via an IMAP server, and the other is an ftp download from a remote > FreeBSD machine. Is there any way I can merge these two together? As I > understand it, fetchmail grabs my mail and dumps it into /var/mail/hodeleri. > If I wanted to ftp down the other mail, I would put it in /var/mail/hodeleri > this seems to be a bit of a problem though. RTFM is appreciated, just point > me to the right place. Not too sure about the fetchmail details, but as far as I am aware it uses your local MTA to deliver the mail it retrieves. For your FTP'd Mailbox, aa solution would be to use formail. This can then split your ftp'd mailbox up into its constituant messages and pass them onto the appropriate MTA , which will then deliver them Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message