Re: Smail -> Exim: If smail works, why change?

[Frederick Page <fpage@thebetteros.oche.de>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote:

Hi Jim,

>Is there any compelling reason to switch from smail to exim?

How about this:

Ease of configuration with Exim, and Procmail (with it's cryptic
recipes) becomes obsolute, because Exim has already very powerful
filtering capabilities in kind of a "basic" language. 
There's also an Exim-monitor (for X)

Example for filtering with exim:

#  take care of mailing list debian-user
if
   $header_X-Mailing-List contains debian-user@lists.debian.org
then
   save $home/mail/debian-user
   finish
endif

# Save all non-urgent messages by weekday:
if 
   $header_subject: does not contain "urgent"  AND
   $tod_full matches "^(...)," 
then
   save $home/mail/$1
endif

Convinced? :-)

Kind regards    Frederick

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