I'm sorry but that confused me even more. I useprocmail to filter content. That's all I've ever used it for. I send mail through Spamassassin, add some headers, and delete high-scoring spam. All in /etc/procmailrc.
That's content filtering. That's not mail delivery. Dovecot is doing the delivery. > On Nov 10, 2015, at 16:48, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Viktor. -- Vicki cfcl.com/vlb twitter.com/vlb
