Re: Email programs that work.

s. keeling wrote:
Mine uses exim and fetchmail all the time.

Which doesn't count if exim's on another box.

Filtering does not belong in the client. mutt's an MUA. It calls
filtering programs to do filtering, as it should.

Filtering belongs in the client if one is receiving mail via POP, which is
a part of the client.

You don't. I do. I rather like being able to read mail on my Debian
laptop, my WinXP Game machine or any machine with a web-capable browser and
get all of my mail all of the time.

So? I rather like not having my mail held hostage to others'
ineptitude. Once it's on my box, it's safe from others' configuration
hiccups.

Which is why I use IMAP... ON MY BOX. Gee, I don't lease a box out on
the net to host my mail/ftp/web for nothing. I host it so I can control
everything which includes being able to use any of my machines or any web
machine to access my mail.


I have three signature files, fetchmail pops from any number of
servers I tell it to, [shudder] procmail knows by reading Received:
lines where the mail came from. Some recipes act on some IPs and some
act on other IPs. [shudder] procmail sorts it all into the proper
incoming folders, possibly auto-forwards crap to spamcop (among other
options), mutt saves replies to the proper storage folders, ...

Yup, and as I explained while it took you several dozen of configuration
lines and several programs to do basic tasks I have one program and 2-3
configuration options.

While everyone spooges over the fact that separating out every little task
is "the unix way" they forget the equal, if not greater, unix philosophy.
Make simple things easy, make hard things possible. These are simple things,
mutt + procmail + exim + fetcmail does not equal "easy". Flexible, maybe.
Powerful, not really. But easy? hardly.

--
Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?
PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...
-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [OT] ATTN: Mike Dee
    ... Then review its configuration and/or your filtering. ... My client is configured *not* to start a new thread when Subject ... as it affects many people who have Googlers kill filed. ...
    (news.software.readers)
  • [Full-disclosure] Gay Security Industry Experts Exposed! 2nd Issue! What has James Lohman (DigiE
    ... We decided to investigate the James Lohman aka the Digital Ebola ... a reboot the configuration looked like this: ... filtering or failure of our Linux firewall to start would leave the ...
    (Full-Disclosure)
  • RE: Outlook2K3 disappearing emails
    ... Doesn't junk filtering happen at the client level? ... that the email never was removed from her blackberry. ... Outlook 2003 using RPC over HTTPS ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Deluxe Newsreader for OS X
    ... > Filtering in Hogwasher is extremely good but no regular expressions. ... > currently involved in a beta test on a newsreader for OS X (Pineapple News - ... be just like the REST of all other Mac clients? ... than a "decent Mac Usenet client". ...
    (news.software.readers)
  • Re: Exceptions to block list configuration and IMF
    ... IMF supports two types of filtering configuration: ... Gateway configuration and Store configuration. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)