Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows why the modular Unix approach is much more powerful than any catch-all application.
You're presuming 2 things.
1: The person has access to install a decent MDA on said machine. 2: The person has access at ALL to configure said MDA in the first place.
Also you, and others, seem to be presuming a third thing which simply is not true.
3: Having internal filtering does not preclude using external filtering.
I'm all for the modular approach. However I do not nor ever will subscribe to the theory that an email client has absolutely no business bringing in, filtering, sending out and maintaining the data which is its primary function. I see all of those as part and parcel of a decent client and any client which does not incoporate those basic functions is deficient. Because without those basic functions one is locked into a single path of doing things which is contrary to the Unix way.
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