On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:47:45PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Since most of the MTAs shipped with Linux distributions are configured to > use procmail as their default MDA, the above is unnecessary. For instance, > exim under potato and sendmail under RedHat 6.2 both hand all messages off > to procmail for local delivery, without the aid of a .forward or > .fetchmailrc file.
Why is this done in exim, given that exim has very complete MDA functionality on its own (and much less cryptic syntax than procmail)? Simply because procmail is what many people expect to use? Or is there significant functionality in procmail which is absent from exim? *If you have exim installed, see /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz for details on exim's extended .forward language.) -- SGI products are used to create the 'Bugs' that entertain us in theatres and at home. - SGI job posting Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+
