On Thursday 09 July 2020 05:47:15 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:38:14AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 08 iul 20, 09:36:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And I note that procmail is being bad-mouthed, but its been doing > > > exactly what I want for 2 decades with no hiccups. > > > > I remember having a look at its syntax and... well, let's say I used > > maildrop ;) > > > > > I would submit that its docs might need help, but if you read them > > > carefully, it does exactly what you tell it to do, so I've no > > > need/urge to experiment with getmail. > > > > getmail is intended as a replacement for fetchmail... > > > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why > > > > As far as I can tell it supports Python 2 only, which is going to be > > removed from Debian. > > Gene, the biggest benefit to switching off of fetchmail is speed. It > is literally 10 or more times faster. > > And a trick to make it about twice as fast or more again (even before > transitioning from procmail to sieve) is to make it 2 steps: > > 1. Save all downloading email to a temp email folder/file.
Why? Its designed to use an MTA, so procmail does all that. > 2. Only after that's finished, sort your email into folders. Kmail does that. And it occasionally gets a tummy ache when another program puts a mail in one of its folders. > Doing it this way means that the sorting program is only launched (and > all the rules read) once, not once for each email. > > The final speed boost, and much cleaner rules file (which I suggest > not doing until after getmail is running smoothly for you) is using > sieve for email sorting. Looked at it, needless complexity IMO. > There are 2 sieves: Gnu `sieve` in the `mailutils` package, and > `sieve-filter` from the `dovecot-sieve` package. > > dovecot-sieve by default pulls in dovecot-core, the mail server, which > I don't use, and I'm not sure if it is started automatically when > installed, so I just use gnu sieve. > > The only thing with gnu sieve though, is that it balks on the > occasional emails containing a lone extra space at the end of the From > line (which is out of spec), which means a trivial perl/sed pass on > your "incoming/ recently downloaded email folder" prior to sorting, > something like this: > > perl -p -i -e 's/^(From:.*)( +)$/\1/' "$MAIL_INCOMING" > > All that said, we won't hold the stone age against ya ;) Guilty re the stone age. What I have has been working well for decades. I'm 85 now, and have a replacement parts list thats beginning to resemble the 6 million dollar man from b&w tv days, the card case is full of this and that for the medics. I've out stared the guy with the scythe and made him blink first 3 times now but I understand I've heard the 10 minute warning buzzer too. I've had quite a ride, but it will end, sometime. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
