Re: Email sorting

["G. T. Francisco, III" <g3 mcs net>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:33:43PM -0400, Matthew A. Reklau said:
> I reciever both regular and list email on one pop account.  I would like
> to sort them to two linux accounts.
> 
> pop account is mar242 psu edu
> 
> regular mail goes there
> 
> redhat psu edu is where redhat mail goes but is just an alias of
> mar242 psu edu real account.
> 
> I had procmail setup before but it didn't work so well and didn't sort
> some of the mail out like it was supposed to.
> 
> I use fetchmail to pop my mail.
> 
> If anyone knows of a better or easier to get this to work properly I would
> be greatly appreciaive.
> 

You don't really need two mail accounts. All you need to do is have
procmail send all the Red Hat mail to a specific folder which you can then
access from your Mail User Agent (Pine, I believe). There are a lot of
very good procmail examples in the manual (man procmailrc).

Cheers,