Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2018-12-14 11:27, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> DEFAULT=/path/to/maildir/ procmail /dev/null
>
> will work (but I try to avoid procmail for data-critical tasks).
May I ask why? procmail has been in my ~/.forward for two decades,
with lots of rules, and I've not seen any problems from it.
Because I have seen its source code, and tried to hack it :-)
Please name a couple of horrible consequences that could happen to my
mail because of procmail. I'm not doubting your words, I just want to
be aware.
In all these years, I've seen only one really annoying thing: one of
my users uploaded a procmailrc with MSDOS-style CR/LF line endings,
and this was very tricky to find out and fix.
OTOH, FreeBSD's awk is also intolerant to CR/LF line endings and it's
not a reason not to use it.
> Lastly, are you sure you need IMAP and dovecot at all?
Sure. First of all, other users need it, and I don't like the idea of
personal settings for myself. Then, I like to use a mobile app
(AquaMail) for mail access when on the road.
Yes, that's certainly a reason. Too bad; in my case I and the few other
users all agree that email (a relatively slow and deliberate mode of
communication on a modern scale) doesn't mix well with "on the road",
unlike SMS.
You are correct about communication per se. But being able to read
mailing lists on the road is precious. I usually mark as unread the
interesting messages, and reply to them later when I'm at my desktop.
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Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
