On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: It's a simple task if you use fetchmail! It will fetch all and every mail and distribute locally to the correct user! It's just like I do with my email and my wife's! You can use fetchmailconf (on X windows) to generate it! It can be a little difficult at the beginning but, don't worry! It IS simple!
In case of doubt, just drop me a line! I can send you a sample!(of the necessary '.fetchmailrc' file) []s Ricardo Castanho ps: by the way! I use former Iname, now Mail.com and....well, does pobox.com works? > Okay, now that I have my DSL connection up and > running, I can get to the problem I _really_ wanted to > ask about! This may be a simple case of RTFM, but if > someone could point me in the right direction, I'd > appreciate it. > I use an email forwarding service, pobox.com. If > you're not familiar with it, pobox.com allows you to > use up to 5 email names. It will forward mail > addressed to those names to your "real" email account > with your ISP. I started using the service so that if > I had to change ISPs I wouldn't have to change email > addresses. This has worked beautifully. I have had to > change ISPs two or three times in the last few years, > but my email address remains the same. I simply have > pobox.com forward my mail to my current ISP. I have > aliases for my wife and for myself. This worked great > when I was a Win9x user. We just used the same mail > application. > But now, I'm migrating to Linux- Mandrake.My wife and > I now have separate mailboxes on the PC because we > have separate logins. I was wondering if there's some > way I can sort the mail so that mail addressed to my > wife goes to her mail reader (KMail), and mail > addressed to me goes to my reader (Evolution). I've > looked at the mail headers, and you can find the > pobox.com alias in it. There must be something I can > use that will sort the mail based on the alias being > mine or my wifes. > Thanks, > -Paul "How Do I Work This?" Schwebel -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user ==========================================================
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