Re: [exim] Philisophical question: procmail vs sieve/exim fi…

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Sujet: Re: [exim] Philisophical question: procmail vs sieve/exim filters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:46AM -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote the following:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:34:15PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote the following:
> > Philisophical question for the assembled group.
> >
> > I currently use a LONG procmailrc to sort my mail into folders (conditionally
> > running most mail through Spamassassin via spamc).
> >
> > Would it be more efficient/useful to use a Exim or Sieve filter to deliver the
> > mail to the appropriate mbx files?
> >
> > I'm on like 100+ mailing lists, so this is important to me to keep my sanity.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Woah, and I thought I was on a lot (I think I capped myself at 10 on this
> account, 5 on another) of lists.
>
> I use procmail/spamassin with Exim as my server. I love procmail and would
> never consider using anything else (I'm only a novice user, too, I don't do
> any fancy stuff, don't need to). I once even had clamassassin on this box
> and used a combo perl script and procmail rule to do incoming virus scanning
> (kinda pointless, though, but it cut down on spam).


Oh yeah, the point is this:

At this point, stick with procmail and use a good text editor (I use vim for
everything, you may like Emacs, whatever) that has a powerful, but easy to
use, search function (easy as with vim, just hit forward slash, type the
pattern to be found, hit enter, repeat as needed).

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