On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:45:35PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox > at my ISP into different users locally?] > > At the moment, I'm the only person using my machine. However, having > installed the GNOME 2.2 backport, I've finally got a desktop that I feel > happy in sitting my SO down in front of and not worrying that she'll > find it so confusing that she runs screaming from the room. Yes, she's > not the most technical of sorts, but she tries hard :-) > > I'm trying to set her up using, for the sake of simplicity and general > "nicely-integrated" reasons, balsa as her MUA. > > She's been using mail.com for a web-based account for a while, but it > sucks (slow AND featureless). I'd like to get her up and running with > my machine, and using my email ISP. > > I receive all email to <anything>@jaycee.uklinux.net. I'd like her to > have a specific one at that domain. For the benefit of any > bottom-feeders harvesting the archives, let's say she's going to get > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) > > The problem is that I get only one actual physical mailbox at > uklinux.net, and all email to @jaycee.uklinux.net gets delivered to it. > The username it's sent to /is/ preserved in the headers, however. > > What combination of programs do I use to get one mailbox successfully > segregated when it hits my machine? I'm using fetchmail -> exim -> > procmail at the moment, but I've lurked on the procmail list long enough > not to ask about using it as a MDA (or is it an MTA that it shouldn't > be treated as?).
fetchmail can separate them, _if_ the ISP doesn't strip out envelope addresses from the Received: headers. Look for 'multidrop' in the documentation. Frank > > Any help gratefully received and appreciated. > > -- jc > -- > $ cat .me/contactdetails/home > [listmail] > $ cat .me/contactdetails/work > [listmail] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
