On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:38:06AM +1000, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
wrote:
> On 29Sep2020 08:13, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> >> I confess to some curiosity here... What are you doing in your
> >> home-grown MDA, that you could not already do with procmail, which (if
> >> you're on a Linux system at least) your mail system is most likely
> >> already using to deliver your mail?
> >>
> >It's all driven from one text file so that when I subscribe to a new
> >mailing list all I have to do is add an entry to that file. No
> >changing of procmail rules, no additions to muttrc. I have attached
> >the filter file to this message, the comments explain it at least as
> >well as I can here.
>
> Nice. That is very compact.
>
> I dropped procmail years ago too, and my filer rules for eg the mutt
> lists look like this:
>
> mutt Mutt-Dev sender:owner-mutt-...@mutt.org
> mutt Mutt-Dev sender:mutt-dev-boun...@mutt.org
> mutt Mutt-Users mutt-users@mutt.org
> mutt Mutt-Users mutt-users@mutt.org@korn.aiss.de
> mutt Mutt-Users mutt-us...@gbnet.net
> mutt Mutt-Users sender:owner-mutt-us...@mutt.org
> mutt offline-imap offlineimap-proj...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> mutt offline-imap offlineimap-proj...@alioth-lists.debian.net
> mutt offline-imap
> sender:offlineimap-project-bounces+cs=cskk.id...@lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> Column 1 is the mail folder name. Column 2 is for the X-Label ('.' to
> not apply one). Column 3 is the rule. Absent a header name it matches
> the to/cc/bcc on the "address" part (the bit between the <> after a
> parse).
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
I didn't drop procmail. I wrote a program to
generate procmail code from a set of prettier
config files. :-)
cheers,
raf
