Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 10:32:14 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za> Cc: "Dr. Brain" <drbrain@toxic.magnesium.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging mail from two souces Message-ID: <37F7931E.4A4C9F17@gorean.org> References: <19991002135147.A83943@toxic.magnesium.net> <19991003075357.D47240@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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Barry Irwin wrote:
>
> On Sat 1999-10-02 (13:51), Dr. Brain wrote:
> > I want to merge mail from two different sources, one is downloaded through
> > fetmail via an IMAP server, and the other is an ftp download from a remote
> > FreeBSD machine. Is there any way I can merge these two together? As I
> > understand it, fetchmail grabs my mail and dumps it into /var/mail/hodeleri.
> > If I wanted to ftp down the other mail, I would put it in /var/mail/hodeleri
> > this seems to be a bit of a problem though. RTFM is appreciated, just point
> > me to the right place.
>
> Not too sure about the fetchmail details, but as far as I am aware it uses
> your local MTA to deliver the mail it retrieves. For your FTP'd Mailbox, aa
> solution would be to use formail. This can then split your ftp'd mailbox up
> into its constituant messages and pass them onto the appropriate MTA , which
> will then deliver them
Fetchmail can also be configured to use an mda of your choice, like
procmail. That makes it very handy to merge mail from different sources.
I consolidate mail from several different accounts automatically with a
combo of fetchmail, procmail and a couple of scripts to handle extreme
cases. In your .fetchmailrc file do something like this:
defaults
proto pop3
fetchall
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f-"
and you'll be home free.
Good luck,
Doug
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