From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 17:32:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11348 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com ([198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11329 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0ubcK8-000QYNC; Wed, 3 Jul 96 17:31 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: John Fieber cc: Annelise Anderson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 1996 18:29:10 -0500." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 17:31:11 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > In my opinion, the procmail rules file is unnecessairly > obtuse---it was probably designed for parsing efficiency, not > human usability---but it is worth the effort of figuring it out. Personally, I prefer mailagent which, basically, uses a language I already know - perl. Has anyone done any comparisons between the two (mailagent vs procmail)? Is one more dangerous or have bigger gaps in functionality than the other? Or whatever? Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org