On Monday 03 March 2008 21:55, Bob S wrote:

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:20:11 am Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Monday 03 March 2008 21:02, Bob S wrote:

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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

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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 2:13:35 Constantinos Maltezos wrote:

What you need to do is set up your local mail accounts in kmail. And unless you've set one up already, you first need to install and set up your mail server, since Kubuntu doesn't do that by default as far as I can tell. But after it's set up, you'll have local email addresses like user@localhost or user@(whatever you named your computer on the network). The default is localhost. You set them up - both pop and smtp - in both your account and your wife's, and you'll be able to easily send to each other despite sharing your other email address.

I looked at the available mail servers in adept, and it looks like the big one is called courier. I don't know anything about it, but I'm going to look it up. Possibly you'll be okay with something less comprehensive, so I'll look into that, as well. However, I'm still not sure Kubuntu doesn't install one anyway (although sending one to what would be my local address and then checking it in alpine doesn't do anything).

So I'll get back to you on that. I want to set one up for myself, anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

Oops. I got my mailing lists mixed up. I think openSuSE *does* come with a mail server set up. Just set up new accounts in kmail and you'll be done. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org