Misty, On Tuesday 10 August 2004 07:38, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
Procmail is not a mail reading program, it's a processor. You might instead want to look at something like mimedefang. These things work with your MTA (such as sendmail) rather than your mail reader. The mail reader really should not be "doing things" to your emails at all. The things should be done as the mails are received to your system.
I cannot really agree with that. Treatment of the messages themselves are, from the user's perspective, fully at the discretion of the end users. There are many things I like to do to messages, and KMail is great at handling them: - Remove my ISP's spam headers from false positives - Strip list name tags (the only thing worse than Reply-To munging) - Normalize Re: (remove duplicates, mostly) - Strip References headers from posting made with the Reply command that actually start new topic threads KMail's ability to add, rewrite and remove headers is very powerful. Its ability to pass messages to or through external programs essentially removes all limits from how mail can be handled and provides the basic hooks for using something like procmail or other mail processing tools. I agree with the OP about attachments: Eudora's way of handling them (extracting them upon receipt and storing them separately) is preferable, but that's just a personal preference, presumably. Webmin + Usermin (http://www.webmin.com/ -- the SuSE 9.1 distribution includes version 1.130 while the webmin.com site has version 1.150) can do some procmail configuration, apparently, but it appears to be as daunting to learn as procmail, if not more. However, there are lots and LOTS of pretty pictures... And it's a Web / browser interface, not a classic GUI, if that matters.
I would be really surprised if there were not some GUI to Procmail, though I have always found it easier to edit the .procmailrc directly.
On Monday 09 August 2004 19:25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I don't want to have to take a university degree in mail programs. Also, I want a GUI program, not something I have to run as a terminal routine.
Randall Schulz