On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:14:18 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben, > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:35:10 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen > > <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > However, if a user isn't or hasn't logged in, their incoming mail will > > > continue to sit on the IMAP server and not get transfered to their > > > Evolution Inbox. How can I allow the buddy to get that mail transfered > > > to the real user's Evolution Inbox so that it can be seen through the > > > symlink mechanism ? > > > > > > Or is there a better way of servicing this business requirement ? > > > > You want procmail and/or fetchmail. There is tons of documentation on > > both in the ether -- Google is your friend. > > Thank you for your suggestions. I hope you'll excuse my questioning you > a little more on that. > > As I understand it, fetchmail does a POP3/IMAP pickup from a mailserver > and delivers it to the SMTP socket of the machine on which it is running. > How does that get mail into the Evolution Inbox ? Fetchmail/procmail will allow you to deliver the mail to multiple people, and even allow individuals to control who gets copies of what kind of messages -- but as I re-read your original post, I see that you probably also want mail statuses and the like propagated from user to user. In that case, I would use one central mail box for both people, using IMAP. > As I understand it, procmail is a local filter that sits between an MTA > and the /var/spool/mail/~ mailbox. Were you suggesting a procmail rule > to deliver everything to ~/evolution/Inbox/mbox ? If so, does Evolution > support the mailbox locking mechanism, or does it expect with its own > Inbox to be the only one using it ? I wouldn't use local mailboxes at all. IMAP is better suited to what you're trying to achieve, I think. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
