email identity crisis

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Probably some solutions:
First, on the email client side. Many email clients provide for multiple identities. Each identity may 
include a different POP and SMTP server. Email programs have different levels of filtering email 
into mailboxes. On the Windows site, Pegasus, Eudora Pro and Calypso are 3 excellent clients 
that provide this. On Linux and Unix, there are some clients, like Netscape than do it all, but tools 
like fetchmail and procmail can do things very nicely. Although Netscape and the above 3 clients 
have filtering, none of them can filter arbitrary fields in the message headers. For mailman based 
lists, there is a listid field in the header. Procmail can easily be used for this. Procmail can also 
handle multiple levels of filter (if listsid == mylist && sender == Peter then move to "ISentIt" else 
move to mylist). 

Fetchmail can run as a system daemon, and poll multiple POP and IMAP servers each at different 
intervals for different users. I've found the more recent versions of Fetchmail to be very robust. 

Currently, I set up a .forward at blu.org which forwards email to me at work and home during 
normal business hours and home after hours. I also send it directly to my SMTP address (which 
may go away when mediaone.net becomes ATTBI.COM), but I still can run my own domain and 
update ip addresses as they change. 



On 30 Jan 2002 at 16:21, Peter R. Wood - Lists wrote:
> Well, the main reason was initially to keep my 'real' emails separate from
> my mailing list emails. So I have lists at woburn.dyndns.org which is the
> address I use to subscribe to mailing lists. Then I had another account,
> cephas at cephas.dyndns.org, which I used for personal email. I don't
> actually use that one any more, but some people (my mother for example)
> have that saved in their address book and are stubborn about changing it.
> 
> I think I have finally settled on this: forward all of my email accounts
> that can do forwarding to my main email address, and download email from
> there via POP. The only problem that leaves is being able to read it from
> anywhere.
> 
> I was really curious to know, though, what other people did with their
> email... what do you do with yours?
> 
> Peter
> -- 
> Peter R. Wood (Lists) - lists at woburn.dyndns.org - http://prwdot.org/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at blu.org
> http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org