Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:53:57 +0200 From: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: "Dr. Brain" <drbrain@toxic.magnesium.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging mail from two souces Message-ID: <19991003075357.D47240@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19991002135147.A83943@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <19991002135147.A83943@toxic.magnesium.net>
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On Sat 1999-10-02 (13:51), Dr. Brain wrote: > I want to merge mail from two different sources, one is downloaded through > fetmail via an IMAP server, and the other is an ftp download from a remote > FreeBSD machine. Is there any way I can merge these two together? As I > understand it, fetchmail grabs my mail and dumps it into /var/mail/hodeleri. > If I wanted to ftp down the other mail, I would put it in /var/mail/hodeleri > this seems to be a bit of a problem though. RTFM is appreciated, just point > me to the right place. Not too sure about the fetchmail details, but as far as I am aware it uses your local MTA to deliver the mail it retrieves. For your FTP'd Mailbox, aa solution would be to use formail. This can then split your ftp'd mailbox up into its constituant messages and pass them onto the appropriate MTA , which will then deliver them Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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