On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:32:04AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thorsten Haude wrote: > >Why would I care? Most systems don't use Procmail on outgoing mails, > >and even if they would, how would the receiver be affected? > > Who said anything about outgoing? I said clearly, getting mail from a > system that does not have procmail. You know, that whole POP and IMAP > thing?
For pop I use fetchmail to download the mail and run it through procmail. For IMAP I do the filtering with procmail at the server. I want consistent filtering of mail. That means I want all my debian-user mail to go to my debian-user mailbox as they're comming in. I don't want my mail client to have to do it, because I might use different mail clients and they might work in different ways, and I'd be likely to make a mistake at some point. > Yes, and yes. Mutt, AFAIK, does not filter. Mutt, furthermore, has > no concept of separate accounts. As such it is completely incapable of > keeping the mail separated out in an easy fashion. Well that's the easiest thing to do with procmail. You simply tell it to put each kind of mail in a different mailbox. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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