On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Procmail is a mail processor. Then why fetchmail also does same thing and which one
>to
> use to filter the mail.
Not exactly.. procmail is a general purpose mail filter that can be used
to do things like putting mailing list mails into separate folders, or
other more imaginative things. Fetchmail pulls email off a POP3 server and
delivers locally using a local MDA or local SMTP.
> Say I receive a mail for rajesh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and
> santosh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> then how should I put filters to put the mails of
>above
> to persons in their respective mailboxes.
In this case, fetchmail is enough.. though it's not clear whether these
two users have separate mailboxes or are collected in one.
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