Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (156 mails)

[John King <johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 06:06:42 Bob S wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 10:38:36 pm Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 8:38:45 Bob S wrote:
> > > Yes Will.  I download (popped) mail to my kmail.  Now I want to forward
> > > some of the mail to my wife. Same computer, different user account with
> > > her own kmail. She will not download mail from our joint email address
> > > because she doesn't want "all that other garbage" I get. (quite a bit)
> > > Just wants stuff that pertain to her interests. So it is up to me to
> > > screen the mail and give her her stuff. I've been printing her stuff
> > > and leaving it for her but that is really getting old. Not to mention
> > > the wasted paper.
> >
> > This is what I thought.  He doesn't want kmail to filter the mail, he
> > wants to do it by hand, in which case what I was saying should be
> > sufficient.
>
> Yes Constantinos, except what you were saying is insufficient, or I am not
> understanding it properly.  Yes, I have a Local account set up for both me
> and my wife in kmail. My Local account is to receive emails for root. 
> Her's is to receive emails supposedly from me. If I go to Yast>Network
> Services>Mail TransferAgent, (doesnt say if it is Postfix, Sendmail,
> Procmail or whatever)  but is not automatically set up. It must be
> configured. It all seems to be for sending or receiving mails from/to the
> "outside", not locally. It is not very intuitive.
>
> All I want to do is forward received mails from one user to another.
>
> Is there a howto for whatever that MTA is in Yast?
>
> Bob S

Bob
Try this:

1.      Using Yast - Software - Software management, install 'postfix'.  It may 
already be installed, mine was.

2       Go to Yast - Network Services - Mail Transfer agent

3       Choose 'Standard' and click on 'next'.

4.      When General Settings appears, choose 'no connection to internet'.  
Click 
on Finish.

5       In your own kmail, go to Settings - Configure kmail - accounts - sending
If you haven't done so already, add another account, and choose 'sendmail' as 
the transport.

6       In your wife's kmail, go to Settings - configure kmail - receiving 
Add another account, and choose local mailbox.  Accept the defaults.

7       To forward mails to your wife, right click on the mail message and 
choose 'redirect' . Enter your_wife's_name@localhost in the box and then 
CHOOSE 'SEND LATER'. This is important as otherwise your default mail 
transport will be used, and you will get an error message.

8       When you've redirected all your wife's messages in this way, click on 
your 
outbox in kmail, and then on File - Send all queued messages via - sendmail.

9       Uncross your fingers, and check that the mails have been received.  
Depending on your kmail settings, you may have to manually check mail from 
your wife's local account.

        


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regards

John
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