In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.06.06 at 09:40, John Pettigrew wrote:
However, I need to filter the emails from one ISP to several local users. There is also the "aliases" tool. Do I understand correctly that this is what I need to use for this?
No, you need procmail for that
So, IIUC, the YaST MTA section applies only to postfix, and will collect email from the specified ISP accounts and deliver the email into batch files within /var/mail/<user> ? Which local user should I pick to receive the unfiltered email? I see that there's a local user called 'mail' already defined - should I use this, or is that a bad idea? Perhaps I should create a new user specifically to receive emails from the servers and then distribute them to the other users, to prevent confusion between the unfiltered and filtered batch files? Then, once the email has arrived for this user, procmail is run on it - do I need a ~/.forward file using SuSE8.2 and postfix? What I want is for the incoming email to be divided into two (or more) normal email batch files, one for each user (based on various filtering rules within procmail), ideally located in /var/mail/<user>, ready for collection using mutt or whatever. Is this sensible and/or feasible like this? John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!