From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 5: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFDD37BB57 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 05:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc07-10.idx.com.au [203.166.2.10]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA03316; Mon, 1 May 2000 21:58:57 +1000 From: Danny To: Rahul Siddharthan , pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com Subject: Re: Q : How to share an email address Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:04:40 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000501051149.A6598@physics.iisc.ernet.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00050222045703.00327@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You mean something like MS Exchange? On Mon, 01 May 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > My email provider allows me to have aliases. All > > messages sent which will then be forwarded to a single > > email account, which I receive as a POP3 account. > > > > I need to allow people to send emails to a.domain.com, > > b.domain.com, etc, where a,b are registered users on > > my FreeBSD server. > > > > When receiving the mail, I need to filter the mail > > and "hand it over" to the intended recepient's > > mailbox. > > If I understand you correctly, you want a@your.machine and > b@your.machine to receive mail, but the way you want to > do it is, people will send mail to yourname@a.domain.com > and yourname@b.domain.com and these mails will all be sent > by your ISP to your mail account, and you then want to filter > them into the appropriate mailboxes / forward them to the > appropriate local users. > > You can do it with procmail. It's there in the ports. > It's a bit nontrivial to use. > There are lots of links/tutorials/other stuff at > > http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/links.html > > Rahul. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message