Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs
> like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl.

what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add 
another program into the mix.
right now I do fetchmail to /var/mail/myuser
kmail picks up the mail, does all the filtering...
when I fire up icedove, it is a totally separate set of folders & emails ( 
dating back 2 years:)

I'm not sure I understand how I can use procmail to put mail into filtered 
folders that any mail program can read.
It would be nice to be able to switch programs & still have all my mail in the 
same folders..
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 
kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..

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Paul Cartwright
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