Re: filter on From

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:42 AM Geert Stappers <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The getmail documentation says/hints/suggests to filter the retrieved
> messages with procmail and maildrop. In the mailinglist archive I saw
> that sieve ( http://sieve.info/ ) can be used.
>

For new implementations I would suggest using sieve rather than procmail.
While procmail worked well, it is not really maintained and thus sites have
moved away from it. Sieve is also much more of a standardized mechanism and
shows up in a number of mail products. In my configuration I use getmail to
feed Dovecot (MDA_external to dovecot-lda) which in turn uses sieve to
perform the filtering functions. I am not familiar with the MultiGuesser
you mention below.


> Filtering on mailinglists can be done the `MutliGuesser`, which checks
> on "To:".
>
>
> For my use case is filtering on "From:" enough.  Which path should I
> travell?
>
> The path through `External_MDA` or a  MultiGuesser alike path?
>

--Larry

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Larry Fahnoe, Fahnoe Technology Consulting, [email protected]
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