procmail: another question
Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS? Will it download mail from a PopMail server?
You wrote: | Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS? Will it | download mail from a PopMail server? Procmail will run on the UNIX system that you connect to via pop. It processes mail, it doesn't transport it. (It can, of course, hand mail off to an MTA.) Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of processing mail. Its most obvious function is to put mailing lists into one or several folders, but it also can be made into a file server*, automatically retrieve PGP keys, act as a basic remailer, etc, etc. Adam *RTFM: procmailex(5) -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of processing mail.
"Relatively easy" -- Relative to the usual venomous Unix user hostile interface that is. I use procmail, but my local Unix guru does not, even though he has a clear need to do so.
Its most obvious function is to put mailing lists into one or several folders, but it also can be made into a file server*, automatically retrieve PGP keys, act as a basic remailer, etc, etc.
The .procmailrc file is in effect a program, rather than a bunch of flags. Every time procmail receives a message it interpretively executes this program, which does a pattern match on the mail, if it gets a match, passes the mail to some external program, which may be yet another invocation of procmail executing a different .rc file. Now if us windows folk had done it, we would have done it as visual basic controls and we would have created an installation program. Still I must confess, we windows folk have not done it and the unix folk have done it, so I guess it is score 1 for unix, 0 for windows. But I guarantee the chairman of the board is not going to use procmail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from http://nw.com/jamesd/ the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@netcom.com
| On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Adam Shostack wrote: | > Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of | > processing mail. | | "Relatively easy" -- Relative to the usual venomous Unix | user hostile interface that is. I use procmail, but my | local Unix guru does not, even though he has a clear need to do so. Its got a nasty learning curve; I held off for a long time before making the leap. What all mail filters need is better integration with MUAs, so I can say "This message should have gone into my cpunks-noise folder, fix the rules." Of course, doing that really well is not trivial. Safe-tcl has a shorter learning curve, but I've spend enough time that I don't want to switch without a payoff. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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