Jim, round robin would require a file that logs the last mailbox used. What might be easier and more effective would be for each incoming email to go to the box with the fewest entries. I would do it with bash within my procmail recipe.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was mulling about this approach but I could wrap my head around how<br>
to do a round robin in procmail.<br>
<br>
not that I'm any good at all with procmail...<br>
<br>
If you have any procmail scripts that do something like this please share!!<br>
<br>
PS. glad to see you posting again on ALE. It's been a long time - welcome back!<br>
<br>
2009/11/18 Björn Gustafsson <<a href="mailto:bg-ale@bjorng.net">bg-ale@bjorng.net</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> If you wanted to follow that approach, you could even go so far as to<br>
> write a procmail rule that does a round-robin delivery of messages<br>
> into three different folders, one per person/workstation. Then they'd<br>
> each log in with the same mail account, but just look at a different<br>
> "personal" folder.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, PairOfTwins <<a href="mailto:PairOfTwins@mindspring.com">PairOfTwins@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Mike:<br>
>><br>
>> If they don't have much in the budget, this dragging emails to folders<br>
>> idea sounds like a quick but effective solution.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm unclear on where the outgoing emails would end up. Could each<br>
>> "Inbox" have a corresponding "Sent" folder?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Tom<br>
>> ===========================<br>
>> Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 21:28 -0500, PairOfTwins wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Gang:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> A local business takes orders online (about 150 per day, each order a<br>
>>>> separate email) and processes them from 1 workstation. They'd like to<br>
>>>> have 3 workstations processing that same batch of incoming emails. The<br>
>>>> goal is for each user to see which emails had been responded to, and<br>
>>>> process only the ones that hadn't.<br>
>>><br>
>>>> My basic approach would be an IMAP setup. Any better idea? More<br>
>>>> sophisticated solution?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Honestly... IMAP is a great idea, but... You should make queue's (IMAP<br>
>>> folders) for each person. Each person grabs a message and pulls it into<br>
>>> their queue and then they are responsible for it. Otherwise, it will<br>
>>> just become too intractable trying to depend on read and responded to<br>
>>> flags. If they fail to handle it, that's a problem but, at least, you<br>
>>> know who claimed it. The alternative is a dispatcher who routes<br>
>>> messages to the queues and assigns them out. Just doing it in a single<br>
>>> IMAP mailbox as a free for all is going to be a mess.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Not saying IMAP is the best idea here (but for small operations it very<br>
>>> well might be) but if you want to use IMAP, this is how I would do it.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> Tom<br>
>>><br>
>>> Mike<br>
><br>
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