On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:27:59 +0000 James Griffin articulated: > [--------- Thu 14.Mar'13 at 12:07:14 -0400 Kris Deugau :---------] > > > Jerry wrote: > > > Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses "procmail". For > > > relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use > > > Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't > > > even been maintained in over a decade. > > > > Sieve can't call outside programs (eg SpamAssassin) by design. IMO > > the inability to call any external filtering programs (even from a > > restricted whitelist) makes overall mail filtering significantly > > harder. > > > > -kgd > > Personally, I still use procmail and use it to pipe mail through > spamassassin, and also use it in conjuction with Dovecot LDA: > > At the the top the procmailrc define the $DELIVER variable to > /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver . > > Then a simple rule: > > :0 > * ^List-Id:.*some.list.id > | $DELIVER -m mailbox > > The -m switch automatically create non-existing Maildir++ mailboxes > should the not already be present. I Think it needs to be enabled in > one of the configuration files for Dovecot. > > It works nicely, but then i'm sure the Dovecot sieve implementations > work well too; i've not tried them yet.
Sieve will happily create any non-existing mailboxes. Sieve is far more robust than Procmail; however, you do have to do a bit of reading to fully grasp what it can do. -- Jerry ✌ postfix-u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html
