* Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> [06-07-19 07:24]:
[...]
> How's fetchmail run by your system? Cron? Something else?
not that fetchmail has a daemon, "fetchmail -d 150" runs every 150
seconds.
[...]
> It does look that way. I left procmail because I disliked its rule syntax,
> its totally regexp based matching system (ok for subject lines, ghastly for
> email addresses) and the performance cost incurred by it rereading the
> filter files from scratch on every message processed. I've got about 2000
> filing rules myself - procmail starts to scale badly for that.
<secret>
adjust the order of your rules so that the most likely matchs appear at
the top of the rc file
</secret>
{...]
> That said, many people use procmail with little apparent pain.
for many years. :)
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