procmail: another question

Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS?  Will it
download mail from a PopMail server?

You wrote:

| Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS?  Will it
| download mail from a PopMail server?

	Procmail will run on the UNIX system that you connect to via
pop.  It processes mail, it doesn't transport it.  (It can, of course,
hand mail off to an MTA.)

	Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of
processing mail.  Its most obvious function is to put mailing lists
into one or several folders, but it also can be made into a file
server*, automatically retrieve PGP keys, act as a basic remailer,
etc, etc.


Adam

*RTFM: procmailex(5)

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On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
> 	Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of
> processing mail.

"Relatively easy"  -- Relative to the usual venomous Unix 
user hostile interface that is.   I use procmail, but my 
local Unix guru does not, even though he has a clear need to do so.

>  Its most obvious function is to put mailing lists
> into one or several folders, but it also can be made into a file
> server*, automatically retrieve PGP keys, act as a basic remailer,
> etc, etc.

The .procmailrc file is in effect a program, rather than
a bunch of flags.

Every time procmail receives a message it interpretively 
executes this program, which does a pattern match on the mail, if
it gets a match, passes the mail to some external program,
which may be yet another invocation of procmail executing
a different .rc file.

Now if us windows folk had done it, we would have done
it as visual basic controls and we would have created
an installation program.  Still I must 
confess, we windows folk have not done it and the unix folk have
done it, so I guess it is score 1 for unix, 0 for
windows.

But I guarantee the chairman of the board is not going
to use procmail.

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| On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
| > 	Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of
| > processing mail.
| 
| "Relatively easy"  -- Relative to the usual venomous Unix 
| user hostile interface that is.   I use procmail, but my 
| local Unix guru does not, even though he has a clear need to do so.

	Its got a nasty learning curve; I held off for a long time
before making the leap.  What all mail filters need is better
integration with MUAs, so I can say "This message should have gone
into my cpunks-noise folder, fix the rules." Of course, doing that
really well is not trivial.

	Safe-tcl has a shorter learning curve, but I've spend enough
time that I don't want to switch without a payoff.

Adam

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