Re: Two email accounts
On 16/02/11 23:18, Gary Roach wrote:
I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new machine. I
have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff and one for
general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the same machine but
completely separated. I'm running squeeze on an i5-750 system with kde
desktop and icedove. What is the best way to do this.
Gary R.
I do this, or rather I think I do - you give little details of precisely
what you mean. I have a personal email domain and a business one, that
are different. The dns records for these domains both point at my home
server running exim. So mail for both domains arrive at my home server
where some simple exim rules detects which domain it is, and stores
personal mail in my personal user account (alan) and stores my business
mail in a separate user account which I call hartley (for
hartley-consultants.com). My wife also has an account for her e-mail
The core of this has two elements
1) /etc/aliases
alan.chandler:alan@hartley-consultants.com
this causes any address that starts alan.chandler@... to be given a
valid local part (alan) (so it can be validated) - I have similar
aliases for addresses like sales@hartley-consultants.com
and
2) This router, which matches the domain names related to my business
and delivers them to hartley_transport (I won't replicate that here, it
is just a simple transport that delivers to the Maildir in the hartley
account)
#
# this router matches mail to hartley-consultants.* and redirects to
deliver to local user hartley
#
hartley:
debug_print = "R: local_user for $local_part@hartley-consultants.*"
driver = accept
domains = hartley-consultants.co.uk : hartley-consultants.com :
hartley-web.co.uk : hartley-web.com
check_local_user
local_parts = ! +not_valid_local
transport = hartley_delivery
cannot_route_message = Unknown hartley-consultants user
On the server I run courier imap (and imaps) to provide imap services
for all the user accounts. This means I have both alan and hartley (and
others for my wife etc) providing imap services that can be accessed
remotely.
On my desktop I run icedove and it access the both alan and hartley
accounts by having them defined as separate "accounts". icedove
integrates them slightly - it stores all the inboxes and sent mail boxes
together in the folder hierarchy, but separates out the subfolders into
separate accounts.
I can also access the hartley account from my iphone (using the imaps
service)
I also have other e-mail accounts one at my isp and another a googlemail
account. I user fetchmail on my server to fetch them and inject the
messages received from them into the incoming mail stream.
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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