Bart Haezeleer seems to have said:
Hi,
I want to give 'my users' of my Linux-box an Internet valid e-mail address.
Because they only want a e-mail address I don't want to spend money to a extra
PPP-account/user with my ISP and my ISP isn't very Linux minded.
1) Via www.pobox.com I can create aliases let say user1(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com,
user2(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com, ...
2) They redirect all the aliases to my PPP-account (e.g.
account(_at_)ISP(_dot_)com)
3) At my linux box I must split all the messages again to the different users.
user1(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com goes in IN.user1
user2(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com IN.user2
For the moment I'm testing the output in files.
To create a file like I'll get later with POBOX, I sent a message to a few
users and concatinated the mail-files (/var/spool/mail)
Variations of this question "How do I share a
bunch of mailboxes inside of one maildrop?" are occurring
with increasing regularity.
This is quite unfortunate.
Here's my unsolicited, irreverent opinion on the subject:
Use uucp.
The various kludges that that various ISP's have come up
with for MX spooling their client's mail and getting to
their offline customers' machines aren't standard and
aren't governed by any standards or RFC's that I know of.
By contrast uucp is a well-understood, proven set of
protocols for transporting mail, news, files, and even
providing remote job execution, across dial-up and
intermittent connections. The initial configuration is
a bit of a bear -- (no accident in the cover of the
O'Reilly book on that topic) but there is little maintenance
after the initial installation.
There are ways to accomplish what you want over
PPP with just SMTP and spool directories at each side.
They are a hassle -- particularly with regards to
scheduling and queue processing. You'll need to find a
more clueful ISP to solve the real problem. Anything you
hack together in procmail is likely to address only
parts of the problem.
Jim Dennis,
Starshine Technical Services