On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:59:52PM -0800, brian moore wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote:
> >
> > Argh! I despise procmail, yes its powerfull, and can do alot, but
> > it's severly anoying. I think it _IS_ a mail clients job to do filtering,
> > after all, it checks the /var/spool/mail/<username> for new mail and drops
> > in in your inbox, if it drops it in the inbox, why not instead drop it in
> > some other box and let you know?
>
> Um, but /var/(spool/)?mail/* -is- the inbox.
My point was that at that point it sifts through the mail (i.e.
perfect time to do basic filtering).
> > Thats why I started writing my own mail client, so the filtering
> > would be easy to use, and built into the client, so you dont have to hassle
> > with procmail. Since I started using Mutt, I stopped developing this mail
> > client, but now I might start again, or maybe add this feature to mutt, is
> > there a reason why this is something that is continuously not a feature in
> > UNIX mail clients? yes procmail is powerfull, but its far too much of a
> > hassle for just setting up a simple filter, something in the muttrc like
> > this:
>
> Because it's not as effective?
>
> Quite a bit of my mail triggers external programs on receipt. I don't
> want that to wait until I get into work, login and start my mail client;
> I want it to work 24 hours a day as the mail is received.
Yes, I understand procmail is very efficient and configurable, but
alot of people just use it for very simple filtering, and for that, procmail
is an overkill as far as setup, and configuration goes. I know when I first
tried to set it up, it was hell!
> More successful would be a gui-frontend to procmail, along the lines
> of the dotfile generator.
Since I really hate using X, i'd probably write something is perl
for the console, but just as well, its a good suggestion, I just might do
something like that, and if I ever complete that mail program of mine (also
written in perl) I can just incorporate the procmail frontend in it.
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- Nick Jennings
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