On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. > > > > What are the tradeoffs between these two scenarios? > > > > fetchmail -> exim -> procmail > > > > fetchmail -> procmail > > > > There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? > > > > What do you think?
There's another option, of course: fetchmail -> exim ...no procmail. I've never seen the need to use it. All I want to do in the way of filtering, sorting, spam-tagging, stripping the adverts out of yahoo list mail, etc, I can accomplish with exim's filter facilities and the odd shell script, without using punctuation soup. Given that not having procmail doesn't break stuff, but not having an MTA does, I think this option deserves wider notice. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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