Re: Multiple email aliases

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From: Peter Rye
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00

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sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Steve Merrifield) writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Take a typical family with one ISP, and one account, username of
> family@fake.isp but with several email aliases - eg dad@fake.isp,
> mum@fake.isp etc... Mail is sent to dad, mum, and so on, but ultimately
> it all ends up in the one file - /var/spool/mail/family.
> 
> Is there a script/program which takes that file and splits it up into 
> separate mail files for each alias? So dad didn't receive mums mail
> and vice versa...
> 
> ie, multiple addresses feeding one file, but then being split based
> on the To: line in the header.

procmail

With something like this in /etc/procmailrc.
:0:
* cyberpromo\.com
/dev/null
:0:
* answerme\.com
/dev/null
:0:
* iemmc\.org
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To: dad
/var/spool/mail/dad
:0:
* ^To: mum
/var/spool/mail/mum

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