Multiple email aliases

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3 total messages Started by Steve Merrifield Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00

Author: Steve Merrifield
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00

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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.

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,

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Re: Multiple email aliases

Author: 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
>(___)(___)(_/\/ \__/ (_/|_|   
>

Re: Multiple email aliases

Author: John Saunders
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00

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Steve Merrifield <sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
> 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...

While procmail is a good solution when you use a Unix command line mail
reader. If you collect your email via POP when use Netscape Communicator
to filter your email into separate mail folders.

Cheers.
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