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I don;'t know anybody who uses Courier as an MTA, but the maildrop/mailfilter language is superb: you can write a decent filter after five minutes of reading th
by dsr_ 6y ago
I don;'t know anybody who uses Courier as an MTA, but the maildrop/mailfilter language is superb: you can write a decent filter after five minutes of reading the man page; it will be readable by non-experts, reasonably performant, and debuggable.
- throw0101a 6y agoDoesn't one need server-side access to do this? I was under the impression that for client-accessible filtering Sieve was now the way to do things. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language...
- aidenn0 6y agoNope, both fetchmail and getmail can deliver to a local MDA[fixed], and that's how I filter my incoming mail with maildrop into a set of maildirs.
- throwaway823882 6y agoif they're delivering to procmail or maildrop they're delivering to an MDA; if they're delivering to a local mail server, it's either an MTA or MDA (but almost always MDA)
- aidenn0 6y agoThanks, fixed.