From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 3:42:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A7D37B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds37-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.37] with ESMTP id MAA01147 (8.8.5/1.13); Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:42:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00618; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:42:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:42:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Martin Moeller Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail sorting In-Reply-To: <13bJu1-1JtH1cC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The procmail program will do this. I am using fetchmail to retrieve my email. The ".forward" file directs the email to be processed by procmail. My ".forward" file in "/home/janko": janko@parmenides "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail" My ".procmailrc" in "/home/janko": PATH=/bin/:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/z_all LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log :0:isdn * ^Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn freebsd-isdn :0:questions * ^Sender: owner-freebsd-questions freebsd-questions Under my home/janko/mail directory I have the subdirectories "freebsd-isdn", freebsd-questions" and "z_all". Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Martin Moeller wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm a real newbie with FreeBSD/Unix and so I've subscribed to several > freebsd mailing lists. As you can imagine this is a lot of mail. And now > the question: > > Is there a possibility to locally/automatically sort the mail into > different mailboxes for one user? I have to get my mail from a POP3 server. > At the moment I do this with spruce but it would be nice if this also could > be done automatically. > > Can anyone tell me what software and documentation I need for this task? > > Thank you! > Martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message