Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:03:07 -0700

    On 2004-01-30, Vincent Lefevre penned:
    > On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
    >> Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering.
    >> For example here's the filter for this list:
    >>
    >> # Debian-user if $h_List-ID: contains
    >> "<debian-user.lists.debian.org>" then save Mail/debian-user endif
    >
    > But the man page is far from being clear and incomplete (compared to
    > the procmail man pages).
    >

    Have you looked at `man procmailex`? It has a lot of very clear
    examples.

    Also, have you ever searched the web for procmail? There are roughly a
    billion tutorials and how-tos out there.

    I've never figured out exim's rules, though, so maybe it's just a
    preference thing. 

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monique
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