On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:30:55PM -0800, Vicki Brown wrote:
> Can you elaborate a bit on why this would be unwise?
>
> All procmail is doing right now (for me) is acting as a content filter,
> shared by all users and running suid...
> It hands the messages off to Dovecot for delivery.
>
> I don't see the difference in doing this from a content_filter perspective.
>
> What am I missing (aside form efficiency of process)?
Procmail is not designed to understand how to handle multi-recipient
mail, preserve envelope sender information, or even handle recipients
that are not system users.
It is not a content-filter, it is local delivery agent with knobs.
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Viktor.
