[25142] in Cypherpunks
Re: procmail: another question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Jan 10 15:32:25 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:26:08 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9501101110.A28938-0100000@netcom5> from "James A. Donald" at Jan 10, 95 11:21:04 am
| On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
| > Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of
| > processing mail.
|
| "Relatively easy" -- Relative to the usual venomous Unix
| user hostile interface that is. I use procmail, but my
| local Unix guru does not, even though he has a clear need to do so.
Its got a nasty learning curve; I held off for a long time
before making the leap. What all mail filters need is better
integration with MUAs, so I can say "This message should have gone
into my cpunks-noise folder, fix the rules." Of course, doing that
really well is not trivial.
Safe-tcl has a shorter learning curve, but I've spend enough
time that I don't want to switch without a payoff.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
