filtering email via EXIM -- question
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't
> > see eye-to-eye any more.
>
> I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim,
> it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just
> put into .forward.
okay, i've got a grasp of the filtering available in exim's
.forward files -- very nice!
plus, it's easy to do test cases with
exim -bf filterfilename < sampleemail
which is really cool for debugging!
so of course i've got questions--
1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically
lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever.
maybe i missed an option or feature...?
2) does the exim filtering mechanism somehow bork the timestamps
on mailboxes? when i hopped into mutt a moment ago, i have five
boxes with new mail; i checked into one of them, nosed around
and switched, and suddenly only two were marked as new.
grok-challenged, here. (what else might munge that datum?)
3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated,
twin overhead cam examples of exim filters to get us
.forwarding newbies off the ground? i've seen the simple ones
they've got in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.html ...
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Which COMMANDS pertain to <xyz>? Try "apropos <xyz>",
"info <xyz>", and "man -k <xyz>".
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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