On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:45, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox > at my ISP into different users locally?] > > At the moment, I'm the only person using my machine. However, having > installed the GNOME 2.2 backport, I've finally got a desktop that I feel > happy in sitting my SO down in front of and not worrying that she'll > find it so confusing that she runs screaming from the room. Yes, she's > not the most technical of sorts, but she tries hard :-) > > I'm trying to set her up using, for the sake of simplicity and general > "nicely-integrated" reasons, balsa as her MUA. > > She's been using mail.com for a web-based account for a while, but it > sucks (slow AND featureless). I'd like to get her up and running with > my machine, and using my email ISP. > > I receive all email to <anything>@jaycee.uklinux.net. I'd like her to > have a specific one at that domain. For the benefit of any > bottom-feeders harvesting the archives, let's say she's going to get > spammenow@jaycee.uklinux.net. :-) > > The problem is that I get only one actual physical mailbox at > uklinux.net, and all email to @jaycee.uklinux.net gets delivered to it. > The username it's sent to /is/ preserved in the headers, however. > > What combination of programs do I use to get one mailbox successfully > segregated when it hits my machine? I'm using fetchmail -> exim -> > procmail at the moment, but I've lurked on the procmail list long enough > not to ask about using it as a MDA (or is it an MTA that it shouldn't > be treated as?). You can configure exim with jaycee.uklinux.net as the domain name to automatically route the emails to <whatever>@jaycee.uklinux.net as long as <whatever> is a valid local user. You can also set it up to redirect all email to non-local user somewhere else. The problem that you are going face with this is that you wont know who a particular email is addressed to if the bcc: you since mail envelope is removed after delivery. Most mailing lists posts would not have a valid email address for exim to filter on based on the To: CC: address. There might be other disadavantages with this that I am not aware of. I did this a while ago and apart from some annoyances with it not delivering the bcc:'d emails properly, it was ok. There is a page on the internet somewhere which states all the disadvantages of this scheme but I unforunately dont have the link anymore. HTH, Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: shri@urbyte.com Web: www.urbyte.com
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