From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 13:35:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom3-129.telepath.com [216.14.3.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70BF637B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22836 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2000 20:35:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14791.52752.535209.198174@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:35:28 -0500 (CDT) To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail sorting In-Reply-To: <83286552@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas writes: > 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. > 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. Procmail is the most common solution for this, as it works with most mailers. It's the best choice if you expect lots of help from other users. However, qmail (a sendmail replacement) provides the ability to sort mail into mailboxes without procmail's help. I believe you can do anything procmail can do with it, but for complex things, procmail is simpler.