Suppose as an instructor of two courses this semester I would like to keep the mail for them in separate mailboxes.

The following method is an easy way of doing this, provided the senders use the proper address.

Lets have mail send to doug-usa2004@mscs.mu.edu be saved in the "mailbox" file Mailbox-usa2004 in my home directory, and mail sent to doug-ent2004 be saved in the "mailbox" file Mailbox-ent2004 in my home directory.

Merely create the empty file Mailbox-usa2004 in my home directory and then create the file .qmail-usa2004 which gives instructions to deliver to that mailbox.

If I would prefer "maildir" type delivery the .qmail-usa2004 could have the line ./Maildir/ instead. The first email received at that address will create the proper directory and its contents.

Code links

.qmail-usa2004

Mailbox-usa2004

Listings

^ .qmail-usa2004

./Mailbox-usa2004

^ Mailbox-usa2004

From doug@mscs.mu.edu Tue Oct 12 06:09:55 2004
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Delivered-To: doug-usa2004@studsys.mscs.mu.edu
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:09:55 -0500
From: John Douglas Harris <doug@studsys.mscs.mu.edu>
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other::1:
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sys::3:root,bin,sys,adm
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dba::5500:
oinstall::5501:oracle
cvsdev::5502:mscsacct

From doug@cpe-69-76-74-214.wi.rr.com Tue Oct 12 06:17:45 2004
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:17:09 -0500
From: Douglas Harris <doug@dougharris.net>
To: doug-usa2004@mscs.mu.edu
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root:x:0:root
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daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
...
doug:x:500:
radvd:x:75:
nofiles:x:501:
qmail:x:502: