On Tuesday, 14.03.2006 at 13:05 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [...] > > 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? Is it possible to do user-based filtering using exim for non-root users? What is the exim-equivalent of editing ~/.procmailrc for example? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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