On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jerry wrote:
Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses "procmail". For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a decade.
I realize this gets away from Postfix per se but since LDAs are one of the things Postfix has to work with, it's marginally on-topic.
I've used Procmail for years. That it hasn't been updated is irrelevant because it just works. Software does not always have to be new to be the right tool.
On the other hand, I've only recently delved into Dovecot and then only as an IMAP/POP server. I had been using UW-IMAP, another software package that has not been updated in years but one that unfortunately does not "just work" for all cases (there is some issue between it and iOS Mail). IMHO, Dovecot suffers from being too much and it wasn't until I understood that there are three (maybe more?) distinct parts of Dovecot that operate somewhat independently (IMAP/POP, LDA, and authentication) that I went ahead implemented just the IMAP/POP piece dropping it in place of UW-IMAP with no conversion or client reconfiguration (other than SquirrelMail) required.
-- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com
