On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 04:37:52PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2016-05-16 08:31 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > That's interesting, thank you. I run the mail server for my own mail, > > it's postfix on my desktop machine which is on all the time. It might > > be that sieve will be more flexible and has more facilities than my > > own Python MTA. > > You probably mean MDA there.
Yes, only one letter wrong! :-) > > FWIW, after using procmail and sieve, and my own module libraries for > both perl and python for a long time, this is exactly what I do now: I > have my own python script driven by a JSON file to do the job. I find > this the most flexible and liberating way ever, and besides the script > has grown complex enough that I can show it as example code for job > applications :) > Mines not that complex but does what I need, adding what I asked for originally won't be all that difficult. I wrote mine to simplify the operation of joining a new mailing list, I just subscribe to the list and add one line to my configuration file. That routes the list messages to a specific destination and adds a short alias for sending mail to the list. -- Chris Green
