Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:42:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: Martin Moeller <martian@t-online.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail sorting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009191222480.572-100000@parmenides.utp.net> In-Reply-To: <13bJu1-1JtH1cC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com>
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The procmail program will do this. I am using fetchmail to retrieve my email. The ".forward" file directs the email to be processed by procmail. My ".forward" file in "/home/janko": janko@parmenides "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail" My ".procmailrc" in "/home/janko": PATH=/bin/:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/z_all LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log :0:isdn * ^Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn freebsd-isdn :0:questions * ^Sender: owner-freebsd-questions freebsd-questions Under my home/janko/mail directory I have the subdirectories "freebsd-isdn", freebsd-questions" and "z_all". Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Martin Moeller wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm a real newbie with FreeBSD/Unix and so I've subscribed to several > freebsd mailing lists. As you can imagine this is a lot of mail. And now > the question: > > 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? > > Thank you! > Martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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