Igor Izyumin wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2002 09:09 am, Adam Flinton wrote:
> 
>>It is a hole in the current set up as you are not about to teach a normal
>>user how to write procmail rules. It must be simple even if that means
>>losing some of the capabilities of procmail. Look at the MS Outlook &
>>Outlook express rules thing. i.e. set of tick boxes for the filter "if it
>>comes from this address", "if it contains this subject" etc.etc. & a set of
>>actions "move to this mailbox", "delete", "forward to this address" etc.
>>Possibly a simple "out of the office" thing?
> 
> 
> How many people use procmail and don't run an email server?  I think this 
> would not be a very useful drake.  Most desktop users use something like 
> KMail with built-in filtering rules (just like you described), and other 
> users can figure out how to write procmail rules.  There are more important 
> things to be worked on, really.

This is actually something that a groupware server (even something like 
phpgroupware) should do.

FYI, usermin has something, but I haven't tried it.

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