On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Olly Betts wrote:

> Alex Hayward writes:
> >If all the mail in the POP box is for one user, you can just append it
> >to their mailbox. Mine isn't (all mail sent to
> ><anything>@hayward.u-net.com goes to one POP box), and I have yet to
> >find a satisfactory way of distributing it locally when it arrives...
> 
> A good answer to most mail filtering problems is procmail.  You could (for
> example) set up a mail account which receives all the mail, set up its
> .forward to feed mail into procmail (or just pipe it into procmail from the
> mail alias file) and tell procmail to file the mail onto the end of the
> user's mail spool files.


I've never usedprocmail for this, hoever I did write a prgram to solve 
thisprobalemcalled sm, for switchmail.  Itl;s rather simple, but sortof 
works, it's avilable form u-net's ftp site (ftp.u-net.com) in /pub/unix 
somewhere...  Could do with a n update possibly - I think it currently 
uses the To: line to switch on - all u-nety mailnow hasan Apparently-To: 
line which could bemore relaible.


Regards,

Aid

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