On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:54:41 -0500 (CDT) Larry Stone articulated: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, LuKreme wrote: > > >> Why use procmail when sieve is so much more powerful? > > > > First, I have a lot of procmail recipes over many years. Second, > > there are quite a few things that sieve can?t do that procmail does > > well (for just one example, calling external programs). > > One of the things I do with Procmail is look for certain key phrases > in email to a particular special account and if found, send an email > that includes the line containing that key phrase to my cell phone > text message address. It's easy to do with Procmail and formail > (which is part of the Procmail suite); I haven't a clue how to do > that (if it's even possible) in Sieve.
Clue: http://www.iana.org/assignments/sieve-extensions/sieve-extensions.xhtml and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sieve-body-00 More clues are available. > I think those who advocate getting rid of Procmail in favor of Sieve > are those whose interest is in sorting mail into folders. Those of us > who advocate using Procmail are those who use Procmail for other > purposes. I have found very little that procmail can do that sieve cannot, other than being a nightmare to debug if something goes wrong. Just my 2¢. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
