Mail service principles: can I have the second mailbox

User Elisej a at zeos.net
Tue Mar 28 04:11:45 UTC 2006


On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:25:37PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> User Elisej wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:54:17PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:21PM +0300, User Elisej wrote:
> >>   
> >>>Can a user have two mailboxes (and two addresses, of course)?
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>Yes.
> >>
> >>Perhaps you could provide a bit more information?
> >>
> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/x114.html
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Kelly D. Grills
> >>kdgrills at the-grills.com
> >>   
> >
> >Yes, sir, I will provide any information you need.
> >
> >I want to have two mailboxes with two addresses (for one account) on my 
> >computer. These different mailboxes I mean to use for different sources of 
> >incoming mail. So I need two real mailboxes, not two aliases for one mailbox. 
> >Then I can give my different address to different senders.
> >
> >Although, I can make all mail going to one address and then filter incoming
> >mail, I think it is a wrong way, because of superfluous action.
> >
> >One mailbox I have since account creation. Its address is account name.
> >The sendmail sends a mail to this address to /var/mail/account_name.
> >How to make the second mailbox?
> >
> >I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 and Sendmail 8.13.5.
> >
> >Any additional information needed?
> >
> >Yours sincerely, Elisej Babenko
> >mailto:a at zeos.net
> > 
> 
> 
> What is your M.U.A.*?
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> 
> 
> 
> *Mail User Agent --- mail client (reading) software
> 
> -- 
> 186,000 miles per second:
> It isn't just a good idea, it's the law!
 
My M.U.A. is Mutt-ng devel-r581 (based on Mutt 1.5.11/2005-09-15).
I can use another one if necessary. Mutt and muttng allow to use several mailboxes.

But does sendmail or permit to use mailbox with name different from user name?
That is a question.

Elisej Babenko


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