* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >>>>> Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo >>>>> account into, say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other >>>>> mail in "/var/mail/alec". >>>> >>>> Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from >>>> your yahoo account to your local MTA (mail transfer agent -- in >>>> your case, probably Exim) for further delivery. Exim puts your mail >>>> in /var/mail/alec for collection. >>> >>> exim doesn't have to - its not to difficult to alter >>> /etc/exim/exim.conf and create a transport to deliver messages to a >>> mbox called ~/yahoo or a maildir called ~/yahoo. >> >> I know it don't, but that would be curing the symptoms, not the >> desease IMHO. This is what procmail is for (and is very, very good >> at). >> >> putting these few lines in ~/.procmailrc achives what the OP wants: > > Or using an exim filter : > > (~/.forward) > > # Exim filter > > if $header_To: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then > save $home/Mail/yahoo > finish > endif
Ah, now that is cool; I didn't know exim could do that. I stand corrected. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343
