On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am > unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot -- > readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue > to use exim -- or equivalent -- between fetchmail and procmail?
It's a necessity in a multi-drop setup, i.e. getting mail for different people in the same mailbox at your IPS, you need a MTA to deliver to all the different users. I for instance have one mailbox at my IPS with 5 aliases. Being Dutch and all, we use those aliases so all members of the family seem to have there own email address, and I configured fetchmail to get the mail and deliver depending on header info. It used to work flawless, but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received headers. A second reason I prefer the setup I have, is that I can switch to maildrop, gnus elisp filters or cyrus's sieve (imap site filtering) without having to change a thing in my fetchmail setup. If I were to use procmail directly, I would have to both change my general mail setup *and* my fetchmail/procmail setup. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
