On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail
pulls it
all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put
mail in
separate folders.
what benefit would I get from procmail?
The processing happens at the server level instead of the client level.
This means the mail is already filed into the proper folders when you launch
your favorite mail client. This also means you can easily move back and
forth between mail clients and not have to rewrite the rules for each
client, if the client even supports filters. This is especially useful if
you also have a webmail server running on your computer.
But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs
like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl.
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