On 2024-03-19 at 02:10:53 UTC-0400 (Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:10:53 +0100)
Fourhundred Thecat via Postfix-users <400the...@ik.me>
is rumored to have said:
Hello,
I am running postfix server for my personal use.
On the server, I have one unix user, and multiple aliases defined in
/etc/aliases, so that I can use different email addresses for
different
purposes.
All these aliases are delivered to the users home / maildir.
Now I would like to have yet another alias/email address, but instead
of
having the emails delivered to my main user, I would like to just
collect the emails in some maildir.
You are describing (one variety of) normal email delivery (to a second
user) which is trivial.
I just need to collect these emails for archival purposes, separately
from my main account.
I could create a new unix user, and have them delivered to his home /
maildir, but that seems quite convoluted.
How so??? That seems to me like the obvious simplest solution. If you
need to access that mail directly on the host, you can make that work
with well-planned user and group permissions and/or ACLs. If you do this
and want to see that maildir as part of a particular IMAP account, that
would be something you could implement via the IMAP server.
Any other mechanism requires more new configuration than a real new
user.
Is there some straightforward way to collect emails from given
alias/emaiul address directly to some maildir folder ?
If you are phobic about adding another user you could use a virtual
mailbox but that's more convoluted than just adding another real user of
the same delivery class that you are already using.
Another option is delivery-time filtering. You could use something like
procmail (an antique tool that was recently re-animated) or a sieve
filter in the delivery path to deliver mail to different folders within
an IMAP account (e.g. in the same user's maildir tree) based on
arbitrary conditions. This is what I do for mailing lists: my
.procmailrc has match lines for each list I subscribe to, delivering
each one to its own maildir in my account.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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