Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Procmail, from my reading seems to be a glorified filter mechanism to sort email. Considering I have extensive filters customized into my current Mozilla Mail client that will be imported into Thunderbird, I hard;y think Procmail is necessary. I would assume its use is if more than a single email account's email is collected?
Personally, I don't think procmail has any use, but this is a really a theological thing.
I love Procmail. We have many servers configured as null mail clients so all mail is sent to the only server that has receipt of mail enabled. So, output of cron jobs such as backups, port scans, security checks, update availability checks, virus scans, quota checks, etc... get sent to that server. The account that receives it is also subscribed to tons of mailing lists like this one. We use procmail filters to sort the mail out into folders for each host and sub-folders for each category as well as for each list. Then, any of the four people who are supposed to keep track of this stuff can check the mail in the appropriate folder with whatever client they want to use. Since the rules are server based it doesn't matter where they are or if they use squirrelmail, usermin, thunderbird, pine, or whatever. All the mail is still neatly organized in just the same way. There may be other tools I'm unaware of that do this job as well or better than procmail but it has certainly been useful to me. Trying to configure all the sorting rules on multiple mail clients would be a nightmare. Jason Joines ==============================