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Re: [opensuse-kde] kmail question
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 07:03:16 -0800
- Message-id: <200803040703.16930.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 03 March 2008 21:55, Bob S wrote:
Just a matter of timing, really.
Yes, I think that's so, at leat in general.
There is also the ability to filter mail through an external command,
and this could be a simple way to fork a copy of messages meeting
filter criteria to another mailbox, either by using the "mail" command
or by creating some other mechanism (perhaps a dedicated mailbox format
file that could be manually read by the alternate user).
Well, that's going to involve mail delivery of some sort, since user A's
mail client can't (permissions), won't (doesn't know about) and
shouldn't (risk of user's mail repository corruption) try to directly
access user B's mail repository.
I'm no expert on the intricacies of mail delivery, but I'm nearly 100%
sure that such a forwarding could be accomplished in a sound way (not
involving one user's mail client fiddling with another user's mail
repository) without having the mail leave the local system. Naturally,
this requires a mail server (MTA / Mail Transfer Agent) running on your
system. OpenSUSE has more than one, so it's presumably not more than a
matter of installation (if not installed already) and configuration
(ditto).
If you never use the system concurrently, you could handle both of the
accounts within a single user and within a single KMail setup. KMail
handles multiple email identities (for sending) per local user as well
as multiple mailboxes (for retrieval), so this might be a feasible
solution for you. But you'd both have to use the same login and, as I
said, you could not use the system concurrently (not even with multiple
logins on different X displays) since the corresponding multiple KMail
executions would likely interfere with each other and end up corrupting
the user's mail repository.
Randall Schulz
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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:20:11 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 03 March 2008 21:02, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE-KDE people,
I would like to forward some emails to another user within kmail.
Is it possible?
One of the many available KMail filter actions is "Forward To," so
it would seem the answer is "yes."
Man, Randall you are fast.!! I just posted that. Another nut-job
like me sitting at the computer after midnight.
Just a matter of timing, really.
Thanks for the reply but wouldn't the "forward to" send it baack out
to the ISP and then return it to the same original email address?
Yes, I think that's so, at leat in general.
There is also the ability to filter mail through an external command,
and this could be a simple way to fork a copy of messages meeting
filter criteria to another mailbox, either by using the "mail" command
or by creating some other mechanism (perhaps a dedicated mailbox format
file that could be manually read by the alternate user).
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Just want to forward it to another user
on the same computer. (separate but different user accounts)
Well, that's going to involve mail delivery of some sort, since user A's
mail client can't (permissions), won't (doesn't know about) and
shouldn't (risk of user's mail repository corruption) try to directly
access user B's mail repository.
Wouldn't that entail setting up some "Local account" to forward it to
without going outside the system?
I'm no expert on the intricacies of mail delivery, but I'm nearly 100%
sure that such a forwarding could be accomplished in a sound way (not
involving one user's mail client fiddling with another user's mail
repository) without having the mail leave the local system. Naturally,
this requires a mail server (MTA / Mail Transfer Agent) running on your
system. OpenSUSE has more than one, so it's presumably not more than a
matter of installation (if not installed already) and configuration
(ditto).
If you never use the system concurrently, you could handle both of the
accounts within a single user and within a single KMail setup. KMail
handles multiple email identities (for sending) per local user as well
as multiple mailboxes (for retrieval), so this might be a feasible
solution for you. But you'd both have to use the same login and, as I
said, you could not use the system concurrently (not even with multiple
logins on different X displays) since the corresponding multiple KMail
executions would likely interfere with each other and end up corrupting
the user's mail repository.
Bob S
Randall Schulz
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