Cyrus + (insert Best MTA here) Suggestions

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Nov 19 00:45:16 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 04:50 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> > > (though of course you can do more
> > > 'nasty' things than with Sieve - if always reasonlable?).
> > I don't follow.
> 
> 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.

Except Sieve can't lose messages, but procmail can.  When a Sieve filter
breaks, the message just goes to your INBOX.
 
Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd. <http://naked-ape.com>

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