procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> > email was. And procmail? Investigated it; it's line noise masquerading
>
> You don't like procmail. Great. That's no excuse for insulting it.
> For some of us, it's a remarkable tool; one we'd rather abandon email
> than do without. There are alternatives to procmail if you're that
> averse to it.
Yes, there are alternatives, such as the filtering capabilities built
into Debian's default MTA, exim. (Which Steve mentioned in one of
the parts you trimmed.)
Personally, I agree with Steve that procmail configs look like line
noise and I also wish to echo his question regarding it: Given that
exim is installed on Debian systems by default and that exim has a
much more easily readable (to most people, procmail gurus may be an
exception) syntax, why are people who want to perform basic mail
sorting tasks so consistently advised to install procmail instead of
just using exim's MDA functionality? Are there things that procmail
can do that exim filters can't or is it just a case of procmail being
what people have used for years and they're not aware that an
alternative is installed by default in Debian?
--
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White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that
we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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