Re: procmail vs. exim

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Which brings us right back to the question I initially asked when I
> started this subthread:  Is there anything that procmail can do which
> exim filters cannot?

    As I said before someone somewhere could probably find some esoteric 
feature procmail has that isn't in Exim's filtering.  A better question would 
be to default to the 80% rule.  Does exim's filtering have at least 80% of 
what procmail offers?  If so chances are it will fit the needs of far more 
than 80% of the population who would have to choose between the two and so the 
added effort to install and learn the specialist application is moot for the 
vast majority of people.

> Does the additional complexity of learning procmail
> bring along an additional benefit or is it just pointless complexity?

    If we take the 80% rule to heart, it's just pointless complexity.

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