Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:19:34 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>, User Elisej <a@zeos.net> Subject: Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox Message-ID: <200603272019.48970.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060328042037.GB818@> References: <20060326131921.GA1884@> <20060328014742.GG752@the-grills.com> <20060328042037.GB818@>
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--nextPart4248048.XkbqdPh5F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 27 March 2006 19:20, User Elisej wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:47:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:28:55AM +0300, User Elisej wrote: > > > Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need. > > > > I could be a maam, you never can tell ;=3D) > > > > > I want to have two mailboxes with two addresses (for one account) > > > on my computer. These different mailboxes I mean to use for different > > > sources of incoming mail. So I need two real mailboxes, not two alias= es > > > for one mailbox. Then I can give my different address to different > > > senders. > > > > > > Although, I can make all mail going to one address and then filter > > > incoming mail, I think it is a wrong way, because of superfluous > > > action. > > > > Well, there goes my plan. I'd think an alias along with a procmail reci= pe > > to filter into separate mbox's would be a simple and effective solution. > > Not sure what you mean by "superfluous action". > > I mean merging two mail flows together (the first and simple step) and > subsequent separation the same flows by filtering (the second and > complicated step) > > > > One mailbox I have since account creation. Its address is account nam= e. > > > The sendmail sends a mail to this address to /var/mail/account_name. > > > How to make the second mailbox? > > > > > > I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 and Sendmail 8.13.5. > > > > I run Qmail. Hopefully someone with Sendmail knowledge will chime in > > and provide the assistance you need. You can use procmail to forward mail to a second mailbox based on the "To"= =20 field. Here's a good tutorial to get you started: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html here's another: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/procmail.html And finally, here's the procmail doc project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pm-doc Hope you find this useful. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart4248048.XkbqdPh5F0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEKMd02TFLCHYGSF0RAtlYAJ45UWjAkaQsg6nPsG8XsbdS1YmvdgCeOrWN ZWHyWLfQYEOph0RTYEfn070= =kB8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4248048.XkbqdPh5F0--
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