On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:10, btb <b...@bitrate.net> wrote: > On 2013.04.12 07.01, LuKreme wrote: >> In our previous episode (Thursday, 11-Apr-2013), b...@bitrate.net >> said: >>> you can certainly upgrade without breaking everything. as with >>> anything else, it just takes some care and consideration. as far >>> as procmail goes, i'd consider losing procmail to be a benefit. >>> why do you think you need it? >> >> Because I use it extensively. > > that's a foregone conclusion. the question is for what do you use it. in > the vast majority of cases, sieve can do everything procmail can do. if you > were to switch from courier to dovecot for imap, delivery via lmtp from > postfix to dovecot offers a number of benefits, only one of which is easy > integration of sieve.
I've never used sieve, but have been using procmail for 15 years or so. I use it to sort mail, of course, but also for adding headers, sending copies of certain mails, altering subject lines, and probably a couple of other things I'm not think of. My procmail recipes tend to span 4 or 5 rc files and several hundred lines. It's not something I think I want to try to redo in sieve.
