From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 14:43:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01732 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01704 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id af02699; 4 Jul 96 21:42 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20366; 4 Jul 96 22:41 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01288; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:26:04 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:26:04 GMT Message-Id: <199607041526.PAA01288@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: root@andrsn.stanford.edu CC: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Charlie ROOT on Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:33:14 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Charlie ROOT writes: > > Now that's cool Zach, then you get threads too. Another reason for > emacs. Indeed! (BTW did you know there's an Emacs for VMS?) > What I don't quite get is subscribing to different groups under > different names--e.g., instead of subscribing to doc as andrsn@ > andrsn.stanford.edu, I'd subscribe as fdocs@andrsn.stanford.edu, > create a user (without a valid shell or some such, so even if the > user had a password it would never need to be used) named fdocs, It's probably a good idea to put an asterisk in the password field if you want to prevent anyone from logging in as that user. (Not strictly necessary if they have an invalid shell, but a useful extra precaution). > and then use procmail to sort all mail to fdocs into the > appropriate folder/file in /usr/home/andrsn. Is that how people > do it? I'm too lazy to learn how to use procmail, and I keep meaning to get around to setting up GNUS. At the moment, I just log in as each pseudo-user and read their mail, but Zach's posting has inspired me to have a go at finally sorting this out. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/