Contributed by stephan
on Jul 16, 2000 at 02:12 UTC
Q&A
> mail and news
Description: if i have a global mailbox on a mail server (eg. all mail to that domain gets dumped into one mailbox) and i download this mailbox from the server (to a remote dialup mail server), is there a way (or an existing script) to break the one large mailbox into the different mailboxes and distributing it on the local system? Answer: getting a global mailbox and splitting it up
contributed by nuance I do exactly this, but I use the mail system
to do it (i.e. you don't need a perl script).
I have found qmail to be perfectly suited to
this task. Qmail will allow any user to control
an entire domain or even several domains. I
use a script called qmtppull that gets mail from
a remote mailbox and injects it into the local
mail system, where it gets delivered normally.
This isn't really a perl answer, but
sometimes there are better ways to do it and I
think that this is one of them. I brought this
up because I was going to try doing this job with
perl, but found (in my case anyway) a better
way. | Answer: getting a global mailbox and splitting it up
contributed by lhoward Depends how you want to do it. I personally use
fetchmail in conjunction with some procmail rules
to get mail from a single
remore mailbox and deliver it into multiple
local mailboxes. You could
do the same yourself in perl
using the Net::POP3 module for
retrieval and Net::SMTP for local delivery.
There are other alternatives too. |
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