On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 11:19:03AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:58:55AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >> > >> procmail is ancient, and has had known quality issues for much of the > >> time. Consider maildrop as a more powerful and more maintained > >> replacement that is pretty easy to implement: > >> > >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html > > > > Warren, > > > > Thanks for the pointer to another of your excellent short tutorials. > > > > I note that you discuss sendmail's /etc/mail/hostname.mc > > file and how to reset local_procmail. First, there is > > movement afoot to remove sendmail from FreeBSD and replace > > it with dma(1). Second, a number of people probably do as > > I do, and invoke procmail from a .forward file. > > > > % cat ~/.forward > > "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-" > > > > Do you know if maildrop can be used in a similar way? I > > suppose I have some reading to do. > > I have not used a .forward file in a long time, but certainly it can be > done... found this in http://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html: > > /home/you/.forward: > "|/path/to/maildrop -d ${USER}" > > > My impression of maildrop is that it has a superset of procmail's > abilities, but with easier syntax and easier but more powerful PCRE > regexes.
Thanks. I'll start to migrate away from procmail, which incidentally filed your reply in my aaaa-junkfilter folder. :-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
