Moin,
* Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-04 01:54]:
>On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:29:51PM +0100, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| Procmail is indeed a close relative to Sendmail, it's rc file syntax
>| is bloody. I propose Mail::Audit if you know Perl, Maildrop otherwise.
>
>Procmail is pretty verbose, but you don't have to deal with it directly.
>I use this:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/cats2procmailrc/
>
>to read list of simple one line rules for filing and write a procmailrc
>from that. Maintenance is: hack rules, rerun cats2procmailrc.
Well, Maildrop's syntax is: Hack rules. I do also think its language
is simpler than yours:
if (/pattern/)
to Mailbox
No further explanation needed.
But anyway, your tool is the ultimate proof that Procmail sucks. The
notion that I should use a meta language to get a grip on it is a
joke.
Sorry for the harsh words, but Procmail is my personal proof that I
don't use technologies for no better reason than that they are
popular or complex.
If I for some reason would absolutely have to use Procmail, I would
use c2p, but I really don't see a reason to continue using a standard
tool while at least two contenders are more usable and/or more
powerful. That is the reason I quit Windows.
Thorsten
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