Sorting email - procmail ?

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Tue Dec 21 17:24:28 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 21, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Dec 20, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>
>>>I need to sort my incoming email. I just need something simple to check 
>>>To: and Cc: lines and move to a folder based on that.
>>>
>>>Is procmail the thing to use?
>>
>>
>>I prefer Chip Salzenberg's ``deliver'' program to procmail.  It lets you
>>write your filters in any language you want (I use perl), and is very easy
>>to use.
>
>Would you per chance have a link for 'deliver'? I didn't manage to find 
>it via Google. Writing my scripts in Python would be great.

Here's a link to the OpenPKG.org Release 2.2 version we're using
here.  You can get the original tarball out with rpm2cpio along
with the deliver.spec file if you want to see how I tweak it.

ftp://ftp.celestial.com/private/ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/SRC/deliver-2.1.14-20040318.src.rpm

Bill
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