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Re: Multiple email aliases

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From: Rohan Tronson
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00
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In article <5v510l$lsm$1@news.latrobe.edu.au>, Steve Merrifield wrote:

Yes, there is.

Procmail, with 20 minutes reading the man pages (for procmail, procmailrc
and procmailex (for examples)). You should have this functioning perfectly.

Rohan Tronson
KiHi Internet Solutions
<rohan@kihi.com.au>

>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.
>
>Does anyone know of anything which does this? I know it's only a few
>minutes work, but quite frankly, I don't want to reinvent the
>wheel so to speak...
>
>Thanks,
>
>   _    ___    _  _ _  _  _
>  / )  (  _)/\/ )/ / )| |/ ) Steve Merrifield 
> / /  _/ / /   // / / /   /  sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au
>(___)(___)(_/\/ \__/ (_/|_|   
>
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From: rohan@bluebottle.werombi.au (Rohan Tronson)
Subject: Re: Multiple email aliases
Date: 1997/09/10
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