Functional overview

Mail processing filters

UnixWare supports MMDF-compatible .maildelivery files. The file $HOME/.maildelivery is a user-configurable file allowing all incoming mail to be processed according to the user's specification. Common uses of .maildelivery include:

automatically forwarding incoming mail to other users
sorting all incoming mail into different mail folders

Sorting can be done by pattern matching against any message header. For example, if you belong to an alias called engr, a .maildelivery entry can be specified to match the To header for engr, and automatically put any such message into a folder called myfolders/engr.mail.

sendmail provides the $HOME/.forward file, which has similar functionality.

For more information, see the manual pages for maildelivery(4) and forward(4).