Re: [Exim] procmail and exim

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Dickenson, Steven
CC: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [Exim] procmail and exim
Dickenson, Steven wrote:
>>Ought I to know about procmail and try to learn it? It looks an
>>abomination to me.
>
>
> Well, seeing as how most other MTA's have no built-in filtering of their
> own, procmail has become the de-facto standard for mail filtering on
> non-Exim *nix boxen. Knowing it would certainly be a valuable skill if you
> support these types of systems, or are forced to use one regularly yourself.
> Neither the former nor the latter apply to me, so I choose to be ignorant.
> I like Exim's filtering much better.


The only thing I'm missing in exim-filters is a way to pipe the message
through a programm, and work with the result.

Nico