On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:38:06AM +1000, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On 29Sep2020 08:13, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> >> I confess to some curiosity here...  What are you doing in your
> >> home-grown MDA, that you could not already do with procmail, which (if
> >> you're on a Linux system at least) your mail system is most likely
> >> already using to deliver your mail?
> >>
> >It's all driven from one text file so that when I subscribe to a new
> >mailing list all I have to do is add an entry to that file.  No
> >changing of procmail rules, no additions to muttrc.  I have attached
> >the filter file to this message, the comments explain it at least as
> >well as I can here.
> 
> Nice. That is very compact.
> 
> I dropped procmail years ago too, and my filer rules for eg the mutt 
> lists look like this:
> 
> mutt    Mutt-Dev        sender:[email protected]
> mutt    Mutt-Dev        sender:[email protected]
> mutt    Mutt-Users      [email protected]
> mutt    Mutt-Users      [email protected]@korn.aiss.de
> mutt    Mutt-Users      [email protected]
> mutt    Mutt-Users      sender:[email protected]
> mutt    offline-imap    [email protected]
> mutt    offline-imap    [email protected]
> mutt    offline-imap    
> sender:offlineimap-project-bounces+cs=cskk.id...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Column 1 is the mail folder name. Column 2 is for the X-Label ('.' to 
> not apply one). Column 3 is the rule. Absent a header name it matches 
> the to/cc/bcc on the "address" part (the bit between the <> after a 
> parse).
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>

I didn't drop procmail. I wrote a program to
generate procmail code from a set of prettier
config files. :-)

cheers,
raf

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