On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't > > see eye-to-eye any more. > > I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim, > it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just > put into .forward.
okay, i've got a grasp of the filtering available in exim's .forward files -- very nice! plus, it's easy to do test cases with exim -bf filterfilename < sampleemail which is really cool for debugging! so of course i've got questions-- 1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever. maybe i missed an option or feature...? 2) does the exim filtering mechanism somehow bork the timestamps on mailboxes? when i hopped into mutt a moment ago, i have five boxes with new mail; i checked into one of them, nosed around and switched, and suddenly only two were marked as new. grok-challenged, here. (what else might munge that datum?) 3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated, twin overhead cam examples of exim filters to get us .forwarding newbies off the ground? i've seen the simple ones they've got in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.html ... -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Which COMMANDS pertain to <xyz>? Try "apropos <xyz>", "info <xyz>", and "man -k <xyz>". Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...