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Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggeratedReports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggeratedPosted Nov 25, 2010 7:43 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)Parent article: Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated
I've long known that I've been using a lumbering undead config file (my .procmailrc was created in around 1999 and has had only minor tweaks since then). But only now did I realise that the project itself is equally zombie-like.
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Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated Posted Nov 28, 2010 16:32 UTC (Sun) by mtaht (✭ supporter ✭, #11087) [Link]
Last week I spent half a day converting myself from a decades worth of old procmail and thunderbird rules to dovecot 1.2's implementation of sieve.
While I liked the clarity and simplicity of the language... and the power of dovecot's imap server... and having stuff in Maildir format...
The idea of piping your now-filtered email through another program is missing from that version of sieve! It's a one stop only filter.
So I lost the ability to do additional processing on the email itself as it came in, for example, when I get email from certain people I used to feed it into a speech synth (instead of "You've GOT Mail", I get "You've got mail from Joe")
If sieve had a "pipe" plugin so I wouldn't have lost this crucial facility of procmail I'd be a much happier camper.
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