Roman Neuhauser on 25/01/2002 at 02:58 opined thusly: > looks like there's just two MDA's in use: Procmail, and Maildrop. Both > have their fine (and not so fine) points, which I'll summarize briefly > > Procmail: > + lots of prepackaged antispam filters > - config files resemble uuencoded assembler I honestly don't see it as more difficult than any scripting language that I've encountered, but I know you are not alone in that opinion either.
> - quite resource-hungry (keeps the whole message in memory while
> processing it)
I'm using it on a Pentium 166 right now w/ 160 megs of PC100 SDRAM and it
handles it fine. I can't imagine anything newer having a problem with
it. It actually seems more expensive in terms of CPU cycles than memory
but like I said I'm using a P-166.
> - reportedly isn't completely safe (can lose your mail)
Would any effective MDA with the capability to dump to /dev/null be
completely safe? I guess if you could 100% guarantee the scripts would
be free of operator error...?
To this I would add:
+++ Has been widely implemented and has copious web resources
dedicated to support and helping newbies get started.
> Maildrop:
> - not as popular as Procmail (fewer filter packages)
> + square head is not a prerequisite to understand the configuration
> - quite optimized (larger messages stored in temp files during
> processing)
> + should be safer than Procmail
What makes it safer? What if any functionality do I trade for this
safety? Haven't used it so I can't say much else.
> I'm slowly getting the picture of the classes that would make this
> happen, and would like to ask you: is there something that you sorely
> lack in your favorite MDA? What is it?
I do wish Procmail were a little easier to debug. Even with verbose
logging on it's hard to tell how/why it made filtering decisions.
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