Evolution

[Alan Jackson]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:10:54 +0800
"M.W. Chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:

> why do you need a mailfilter.pl when procmail (plus formail if
> necessary) can do the job as well?

Well, there's can do, and can do in a fairly painless and understandable
way. Yeah, I'm told that procmail can do anything, but procmail scripts
look a lot more like line noise than perl scripts do. Plus, if I
expend effort on my perl skills, there are a million things I can do. If
I expend effort developing procmail skills I can, well... sort mail.


> 
> > I have a pretty serious filter I'll post on my website someday.
> > 
> > My mail, for a variety of reasons, follows the path :
> > 
> > fetchmail -> procmail -> temp-folder -> mailfilter.pl -> Mh folders for
> > Sylpheed
> > 
> > The perl script also calls spamassassin internally. I detect virii, bounce a
> 
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