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Re: [DEBIAN] Why does sendmail depend on procmail?



According to Eloy A. Paris:
> I can think of one thing: comsat; deliver does not notify comsat
> when new mail arrives so the biff program can not notify
> asynchronously of new mail arrival and I really love that.

IIRC, comsat notification is trivial to put in a system delivery file.

> Now I have come to love procmail because of the powerful filtering
> capabilities.

Procmail may be more convenient than Deliver, but more power it most
certainly is not.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg          - a.k.a. -           <chip@pobox.com>
        "He's Mr. Big of 'Big And Tall' fame."  // MST3K


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