I forgot to mention that I am using Maildir. Does that kill the ability to
use exim's filtering?
I had problems getting a global procmail to work, but that was likely a
misconfiguration on my end. I'll give that another try this weekend. I
still would like to find a way to do filtering per-user, though.
I'm not terribly concerned about the processing overhead of procmail. This
server is handling a fairly low volume of message (~2000/day).
Thanks,
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Simkowiak [
mailto:dereks@itsite.com]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:37 PM
To: Adam Israel
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim w/virtual users and procmail
> allow for procmail per virtual user. I don't mind having to maintain
> the .procmailrc for each user, since they'll be fairly standard for
> the majority of users.
You can have a "global" procmailrc at /etc/procmailrc, and then let
customers edit their own personal .procmailrc on an as-needed basis.
> The goal of this is to be able to sort mail to specific folders per
> user, i.e., moving all mail tagged as spam (via spamc) to a spam
> folder. If there's a better solution to this than procmail, I'm all
> ears.
Exim has its own filtering that can reside in, say, a .forward file,
but does not support the Maildir format (which procmail does). Check the
Exim docs for more on Exim's built-in filtering.
> the list archives and googling haven't resulted in any answers to the
> procmail question.
I'm using it right now to deliver to Maildirs. I haven't done the
filtering side of things yet (but I have no reason to think I'll have any
problems, procmail is already doing the delivery). I'm going to offer a
web-based interface for editing the .procmailrc files.
Procmail is fairly expensive to launch for every email. My view on
this is that processing power is cheap, in fact, one of the cheapest
components in the system. (I'm doing a load-balanced setup so I can add
$1500 nodes on an as-needed basis.)
--Derek
