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
