Cyrus + (insert Best MTA here) Suggestions

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Hi Mun Heng, hi Alexander,

On Friday 19 November 2004 04:50, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> I am not sure if we misunderstood, but with procmail you can do
> things which Sieve can't do. So for instance Sieve can not filter
> by mail body inspection and I think piping to other programs like
> spamc or clamassassin. Well, this can be realized at different
> place within the mail server setup. On the other side Sieve has the
> advantage that you can setup web administration for it using i.e.
> smartsieve or websieve which allows users to customize filtering
> themselves, just by using their browser.

For me, the most disturbing difference in conception between these 
opponents besides the painfully missing pipe feature is that procmail 
is able to create missing mailboxes on the fly, while sieve simply 
bails out with an error :-(..

OTOH, the syntax of procmail files is, hmm, strange to be diplomatic, 
while sieve's is quite nice and concise. I always hated rules like:

:0
* ! ^From:.*some.address
* ! ^From:.*other.address
{ }
:0 E
where/ever/

Now back to figuring out, how to plug in a custom filter into postfix 
_besides_ amavisd-new..

> > > Cheers Heng :)
> >
> > Actually, My name goes like this
> > Ow - Surname
> > Mun Heng - Given Name
>
> I beg your pardon! I am always a bit unsure when speaking to Asian
> people.

Well, simply imagine talking to a bavarian, eg. Stadlhuber Gustl, you 
know ;-)

Cheers,
Pete

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