On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:31:51 +0100
Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:

> frankly in times of LMTP and Sieve there is hardly a need to use 
> procmail - it is used because "i know it and it just works" - so why 
> should somebody step in and maintain it while nobody is forced to use
> it

I use Email::Filter, not procmail, but tell me: Can LMTP and Sieve do
the following?

1) Cc: mail containing a specific header to a certain address, but only
between 08:00-09:00 or 17:00-21:00.

2) Archive mail in a folder called Received-Archive/YYYY-MM.

3) Take mail to a specific address, shorten it by replacing things
like "four" with "4", "this" with "dis", etc. and send as much of the
result as possible as a 140-character SMS message?  Oh, and only do
this if the support calendar says that I am on the support pager that
week.

4) Take the voicemail notifications produced by our Asterisk
software and replace the giant .WAV attachment with a much
smaller .MP3 equivalent.

These are all real-world requirements that my filter fulfills.  And it
does most of them without forking external processes.  (Item 3 actually consults
a calendar program to see who's on support, but the rest are all handled
in-process.)

Regards,

David.

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