Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

[Andy Firman <list@firman.us>]

> There's another option, of course:
> 
>    fetchmail -> exim
>    
> ...no procmail. I've never seen the need to use it. All I want to do
> in the way of filtering, sorting, spam-tagging, stripping the adverts
> out of yahoo list mail, etc, I can accomplish with exim's filter
> facilities and the odd shell script, without using punctuation soup.
> Given that not having procmail doesn't break stuff, but not having an
> MTA does, I think this option deserves wider notice.   

I second this suggestion.  Exim filters are excellent.

So easy to configure and they simply go in your .forward file.
Simple and elegant...the way I like it.

Read the filter.txt file on your system in this directory:
/usr/share/doc/exim

Andy