Re: Maildrop / Maildir naming standards

Jerry Lundström <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:47:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2005 08:41, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> 
>>And does anyone know of any other good maildrop-like program that
>>can do regexp filtering of mail? (I'm hoping to drop courier-*).
> 
> What's wrong with maildrop?  You certainly don't have to use 
> courier-mta or courier-imap to use it.  I doubt you'll find a more 
> suitable replacement.

The code is horrible, the packaging is lame... and did I mention the 
code was horrible?

> maildrop is a fine package and has many advantages over procmail.  
> We use it for every user on our system to process 20,000-100,000 
> messages a day with qmail+vpopmail.

Sure, maildrop works but it would be very nice to have something newer, 
cleaner... and not connected at all with courier. =)

-- 
Jerry Lundström
Sektionen för IT och media, Stockholms universitet
+46 (0)8 16 19 99 / http://www.it.su.se