fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
does anyone know of a mail delivery agent that's capable of the following: (1) accept a message at STDIN (2) run the message through any number of filters, possibly dying with a non-zero exit code to communicate a failure to the MTA (3) finally, respect ~/.forward, but if that doesn't

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-01-07 11:10]: does anyone know of a mail delivery agent that's capable of the following: (3) finally, respect ~/.forward, but if that doesn't exist, deliver to a Maildir? if it can't deliver to Maildirs, that should not be too much

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1136 +0100]: I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing it. quite possible, the terminology gets flakey there... postfix is a

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-01-07 12:02]: also sprach Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1136 +0100]: I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing it. .forward is under

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1345 +0100]: Whatever you think, Postfix starts my MDA because I tell it to in my ~/.forward. I've also seen this recommended for Sendmail Procmail. So if you use your ~/.forward differently, you may run into problems, eg when one user

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:36:26AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing it. What am I missing here? Although it's not the most common configuration, ISTR that

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:10:43AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | does anyone know of a mail delivery agent that's capable of the | following: | | (1) accept a message at STDIN | (2) run the message through any number of filters, possibly dying with | a non-zero exit code to

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1756 +0100]: I really like exim's filter capabilities, but it won't play so nicely with postfix installed too. If you really want, I can give you tips on installing exim to act solely as an MDA and not as the system MTA even though it isn't

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1756 +0100]: | I really like exim's filter capabilities, but it won't play so nicely | with postfix installed too. If you really want, I can give you tips | on installing exim to

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.2047 +0100]: Yeah, apt won't stick it there, you (or I) would have to compile it separately. Possibly I could just send you the binary from the package, but when I did it at school I configured it to use my UID/GID as the mail UID/GID. The only