----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Izyumin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for a Drake - procmail
> 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. > -- > Most desktop users use something like KMail with built-in filtering rules (just like you described), No they don't, they use Windows based mail clients. > and other users can figure out how to write procmail rules. Yeah right. You've got to teach windows users how to setup & use telnet/ssh & then vi & then procmail? Linux users possibly but Windows users? How many desktop users use KMail & indeed linux vs how many run a windows & thus a windows mailer such as Outlook / outlook express? I would say most. The friend of mine who suggested it has at present Win2K + Exchange + Windows desktop users. He (& the company he works for) would like to move to LDAP for the address book etc + Postfix + IMAP. What is stopping this is the inability of the Windows mail clients to filter IMAP messages. It won't happen without it & as such he is looking to have to write some sort of web (possibly PHP) based thing to allow this using Procmail. He (as a windows admin) is amazed that he can't find anything like this already in existence. I don't think he is alone in this i.e. wanting a Linux mail / internet services server but keeping the Windows clients at least so that any move is a steady migration. Quite simply given the volume of cr*p that comes into many people's inboxes the inability to to this in an easy GUI/Web way is a major negative factor against the move. Adam
