[ILUG] (long) sendmail aliases ?

[Ciaran Mac Lochlainn]

You could collect the mails from the pop3 account you were using, only
without deleting the messages when you collect them.  Most mail clients have
a setting for this.  I think you can get fetchml to do it too.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Declan Grady" <Declan.Grady at nuvotem.com>
To: "Irish Linux Users Group" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: [ILUG] (long) sendmail aliases ?


> Hi,
> I need to (temporarily) copy all mail for a specific user's account to
> another account, as well as leaving the original email in the original
> account.
> (Machine packed up, and temporarily using another machine, so want all
email
> delivered to another pop account, as well as leaving it in the original
> account so that when original machine is back up, all email in the
meantime
> will be available under the original pop account)
>
> Problem:
> Several aliases are in use:
>
> e.g.
> in my /etc/mail/aliases file I would have:
> harry: harrypotter
> h.potter: harrypotter
> harry.potter: harrypotter
> hpotter: harrypotter
>
> I need all these aliases (including the account name harrypotter) copied
to a
> temporary account (say harrypotter2), as well as the harrpotter account.
>
> If I add , harrypotter2 onto each line in the aliases file it will do
those
> aliases ok, but what about the original 'harrypotter' account ?
>
> What am I missing ? If I use a .forward file, will it make a copy, or move
> the original email ?
>
> Thanks,
> Declan
>
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