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Re: Client "daemon" for sorting e-mail via IMAP



On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:53:05AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, David Guntner wrote:
> 
> >So it might actually be safer to let it hand the mail off to Postfix
> >(and let *that* handle Procmail) anyway....
> 
> There are a few options here:
> 
> (1) Use maildrop (not to be confused with MailDrop).  Like procmail
> but safer (apparently).  Home site:
> http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
> 
> (2) Use a catch-all rule at the end of .procmailrc so that even if
> mail falls through it goes somewhere other than /dev/null.
> 
My .procmailrc does not have a catch-all rule at the end, but it does
have a "DEFAULT=" line at the top.  As far as I know, nothing's ever
been lost in the 4 years or so I've been using it.  

Note that I'm using mbox and not maildir, but I wouldn't think that
would make a difference.

-Rob


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