[Cscmail-devel] Feature request

[John S. <su...@os...>]

I'm aware that cscmail's being rewritten in C.

I'd like cscmail to use (at least as an option) procmail to filter mail into its 
folders.

I problem I see with a lot of mailers is that they store mail in files, lots of 
messages in each. While procmail provides locking for delivery, it's not usable with 
mailers such as Pine, kmail and so on because these mailers do not know about 
procmail.

A sound alternative is to allow asynchronous delivery as mh/nmh do; I use exmh which 
is basically a wrapper for mh/nmh; if the procmail filters specify locking then safe 
delivery is assured, even when the recipient is using the chosen email client.

I'd like cscmail's POP accounts (and, I guess IMAP too) to specify that mail is to 
be piped into procmail (or some other external program) for storage. Once incoming 
mail has been received and stored, cscmail would then need to check for new folders.

Ideally, cscmail would also be able to use standard mh folders as created by 
rcvstore, as many people will already have their mail stored in this way.




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