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Re: procmail vs maildrop (Found: excellent procmail HOWTO)



On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:05PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:11 -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > I found a good HOWTO also. It said use getmail and maildrop instead of
> > fetchmail and procmail. :)  I spent a whole day trying to get procmail
> > to work, then gave up and set up maildrop in half an hour.
> 
> I switched to getmail from fetchmail already.  Are there any advantages
> of maildrop over procmail?  Is there a good reason for me to, perhaps,
> try maildrop instead (I've already set up procmail)?

Personally, I like the mailfilter syntax better.  I think that
procmailrc syntax is more flexible, but I find the mailfilter simplicity
more approachable.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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