This one time, at band camp, Paul Scott said: > So I need (if I want good filtering): > ISP -> fetchmail -> procmail -> exim -> mutt That is one good way. > I thought I read in some exim doc that exim doesn't filter. It doesn't exactly filter, more like sort. Exim is a mail transport agent, and can transport your mail to wherever you specify, according to a given set of rules (set up in ~/.forward). Procmail is a mail delivery agent, and is more robust. It can call external programs, lock the mailspool while a piece of mail is being run through the external program to avoid corruption, etc. It depends on your needs - if you have many sorting needs, and want to filter your mail through a variety of programs, procmail may suit you better. If your needs are simple, exim can handle it. It's a case of There's More Than One Way To Do It(TM). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Cropp's Law: The amount of work done | | steve@lobefin.net | varies inversly with the time spent in | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | the office. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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