On Thu, 2 May 2002, Werner Reisberger wrote:

> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:57:00AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > And again, you have an external program that is going through and
> > "pre-reading" each and every users email, and adding/changing the message,
> > which I believe will severely reduce the number of sites that implement it
> > at the MTA level ... procmail isn't an option as a replacement for Sieve,
> > since you then have to 'break the black box' by providing each email
> > account with a shell account ...
>
> That's not true. You can configure procmail with cyrus keeping the black
> box environment. I am using it this way letting users change their filters
> over a cgi with limited capabilities. I am not allowing users to call
> external programs although it could be easily implemented. To implement
> this has to be done carefully of course.

Okay, you've peaked my interest ... I had tried before to use procmail,
and found that I had to change permissions on deliver itself to make it
work ... how are you tying procmail into cyrus, and what verison of cyrus?


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