[Sheflug] More on the mail handling thread

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Tickle <s.tickle [at] quarndon.co.uk> writes:

    Steve> I'm sure I could hack something together on one of our
    Steve> linux boxes... I just don't know how, although I'm
    Steve> confident one of you will ;-)

If you are allowed to redirect to a Linux box, then just redirect
everything to an account (or alias) named "sorter [at] linux.qlan", and
have "sorter" push it through procmail.  Whether to use an account or
an alias will depend on a number of things (for one, with an account
it will have its own mailbox in case things blow up; that will be the
failnearlysafe for you; with an alias it's not clear exactly what
would happen, depnds on your configuration).

Personal mail (except for BCCs, which I don't know how to handle
offhand) will be caught by recipies like

:0:
* ^TOs\.tickle@quarndon\.co\.uk
s.tickle@somebox.quarndon.co.uk

and mailing lists (internally exploded) by

:0:
* ^TOsheflug@vuw\.ac\.nz
s.tickle@somebox.quarndon.co.uk
t.sickle@boxsome.quarndon.co.uk

etc  Procmail will deliver to files, which you could export via Samba
or NFS (I don't like the security implications, you _can_ make that
quite secure, but there are lots of ways to lose, too) or make them
come get them by scp (an ssh utlity).

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