Clif Caldwell wrote:
>
> The problem:
> My wife and I each have our own e-mail addresses. I would like to have my
> machine dial-up my ISP once an hour or so and get our mail and then move it to
> separate directories or at least separate mailboxes. Unfortunately we each
> prefer a different mail client (wife --> spruce or applixware, me ---> XFMail
> for its ease of filtering).
>
> Beginning of a solution:
> 1.Flakey dial-up script. Almost unusable but occassionally works.
> 2.Fetchmail can go get the mail but puts it all in /var/mail not /home/...
> (Oh yeah one more hurdle, so far I and my wife share a non-root user name as
> we both use about the same things. Thus our home mail directory is
> probably not agood place to sort stuff.)
>
> Real Solution:
> Help.............(Its up to ya'll :-)
>
> Thank you greatly for the upcoming help.
I can't help with the dialup part.
>From what I've learned/been taught about fetchmail is that it places
the mail in the folder of the person who ran it.
But if you use procmail and a ~/.forward file and set up some
recipes (scripts) to filter the mail into two folders, one for your
email address and one for your wife's, that might work.
For a more detailed set of intructions, check out:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html
The MTA is exim in this case, but if you're already getting mail
into your /var/mail/username folder, then I think that the info on
setting up a .forward file and procmail will help.
Make sure to take a look at the manpage for procmail, etc.
Good luck.
I just installed Mandrake and have yet to configure mail on my
system. Let us know how things go.
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Mark Wagnon
Chula Vista, CA
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