On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> Or, if you prefer: Since exim supports a fairly complex
> filter language, why make slocal do exim's job?
>
> Ultimately, I think I'll go back to using procmail for local mail
> delivery. It seems a bit more flexible than slocal, and it
> plays well with others.
I repeat again: Exim filtering *does not* run the pipes at filtering
time. It is like a sort of conditional .forward file. So it is not an
alternative to procmail (or slocal). In particular, the result of
running the pipe is not available during filtering.
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