Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox
User Elisej
a at zeos.net
Tue Mar 28 04:20:36 UTC 2006
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:47:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:28:55AM +0300, User Elisej wrote:
>
> > Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need.
> >
>
> I could be a maam, you never can tell ;=)
>
> > I want to have two mailboxes with two addresses (for one account)
> > on my computer. These different mailboxes I mean to use for different sources
> > of incoming mail. So I need two real mailboxes, not two aliases
> > for one mailbox. Then I can give my different address to different senders.
> >
> > Although, I can make all mail going to one address and then filter incoming
> > mail, I think it is a wrong way, because of superfluous action.
> >
>
> Well, there goes my plan. I'd think an alias along with a procmail recipe
> to filter into separate mbox's would be a simple and effective solution.
> Not sure what you mean by "superfluous action".
I mean merging two mail flows together (the first and simple step) and subsequent separation the same flows by filtering (the second and complicated step)
>
> > One mailbox I have since account creation. Its address is account name.
> > The sendmail sends a mail to this address to /var/mail/account_name.
> > How to make the second mailbox?
> >
> > I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 and Sendmail 8.13.5.
> >
>
> I run Qmail. Hopefully someone with Sendmail knowledge will chime in
> and provide the assistance you need.
>
> --
> Kelly D. Grills
> kdgrills at the-grills.com
>
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