procmail question

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jun 11 20:09:38 UTC 2009


Raquel wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:34:42 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering can you use procmail to send a email message to two
>> different places? I have a user that needs to view specific senders
>> mail from home that is on our private imap server. I can set her up
>> to dial in but the connection is fairly slow. If I could forward a
>> copy of the email to her personal email she would have faster
>> access, but the original email also must be delivered to the proper
>> email directory on our server. Thanks Linda
>> 
> 
> What MTA are you using.  What you want can be done in Sendmail, and
> I'm sure it can also be done with Exim and Postfix.

Yes, but she wants to handle it in procmail - which really is the right 
place for it.  If it's done by procmail, then it's easily configurable per-
user.

I'm certain the answer is "yes" - but I've already admitted to not knowing 
procmail :-)
-- 
derek






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