Re: using safecat to filter mail

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:14:53AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
[snip]
> procmail, for some reason, uses a totally different naming convention.
> There's no good reason for it, and it could result in a namespace collision.
> As soon as you get a collision, you've lost mail.

Unless you take precautions to survive collisions. djb's code (and
safecat and possibly others) survive collisions. procmail doesn't.
*that* is the biggest problem.

> Why take chances?

Exactly. That's why I say: pipe to safecat from procmail.

Greetz, Peter.