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RE: Sorting by email addresses

2005-10-10 08:41:19


-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebus the Aardvark (formerly His Cremeliness)
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 5:38 AM
To: Lord Raiden
Cc: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Subject: Re: Sorting by email addresses


On 10/8/05, Lord Raiden <me(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net> wrote:
         I'm curious what I need to put in my procmail file to take mail
destined for a given user and sort it into the appropriate
mailbox on the
server.  Right now fetchmail pulls all our mail from a central
ISP mailbox
and dumps it into one mailbox here on the local mail server.
I'd like to
be able to take mail messages destined for specific users and dump those
messages into their individual mailboxes on the mail server.

Say it with me

"Procmail is not an MTA"

You will _always_ have problems using procmail to repalce a MTA.

Yup. Alternatively,

Some folks apparently use fetchmail and sendmail successfully in
combination.  Here's a setup script that purports to make that
happen:

http://cork.linux.ie/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=2

The fetchmail home page has some other useful resources:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/


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