Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:11:17 +0300 From: User Elisej <a@zeos.net> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox Message-ID: <20060328041117.GA818@> In-Reply-To: <44289EA1.7050305@daleco.biz> References: <20060326131921.GA1884@> <20060326195412.GE752@the-grills.com> <20060327062855.GA686@> <44289EA1.7050305@daleco.biz>
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:25:37PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > User Elisej wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote: > >> > >>>Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)? > >>> > >>> > >>Yes. > >> > >>Perhaps you could provide a bit more information? > >> > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/x114.html > >> > >>-- > >>Kelly D. Grills > >>kdgrills@the-grills.com > >> > > > >Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >Any additional information needed? > > > >Yours sincerely, Elisej Babenko > >mailto:a@zeos.net > > > > > What is your M.U.A.*? > > Kevin Kinsey > > > > *Mail User Agent --- mail client (reading) software > > -- > 186,000 miles per second: > It isn't just a good idea, it's the law! My M.U.A. is Mutt-ng devel-r581 (based on Mutt 1.5.11/2005-09-15). I can use another one if necessary. Mutt and muttng allow to use several mailboxes. But does sendmail or permit to use mailbox with name different from user name? That is a question. Elisej Babenko
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