From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 2:51:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.westgate.gr (zeus.westgate.gr [212.205.119.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F7537B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2684 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2000 09:49:00 -0000 Received: from gray.westgate.gr (root@212.205.119.66) by zeus.westgate.gr with SMTP; 19 Sep 2000 09:48:59 -0000 Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8J9pDB17793; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:51:13 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:51:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Martin Moeller Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail sorting Message-ID: <20000919125113.A17572@gray.westgate.gr> References: <13bJu1-1JtH1cC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <13bJu1-1JtH1cC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com>; from martian@t-online.de on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:44:21AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Martin Moeller wrote: > > Is there a possibility to locally/automatically sort the mail into > different mailboxes for one user? I have to get my mail from a POP3 > server. At the moment I do this with spruce but it would be nice if > this also could be done automatically. > > Can anyone tell me what software and documentation I need for this > task? I use a combination of: sendmail: for delivering mail locally and remotely. fetchmail: for popping my mail home and feeding them to my sendmail. procmail: for sendmail's local delivery agent, and filtering mail to my mailboxes. The setup of these programs is not too complicated, but as a newbie it might seem a bit intimidating at first. For sendmail setup, I suggest the excellent "Sendmail" book of O'Reilly. Fetchmail and procmail should be easier to play with, and their manpages are fairly complete and usually sufficient resources. -- Giorgos Keramidas, For my public pgp2 key: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message