Re: [Fetchmail-users] Problem using fetchmail with a user

[Carlos E. R. <car...@op...>]

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On Friday, 2014-10-17 at 16:08 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2014 12:13:45 Matthias Andree did opine

>> Personally I prefer maildrop, http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop.html
>
> And this is a currently well supported filtering MTA that can do what
> procmail is doing now?  I'll go look at it, thanks.


In my system, installing "standalone" maildrop (which is not available in 
the standard repositories, but in server:mail) requires installing 
something more that I do not want:

Telcontar:~ # zypper --no-refresh in maildrop
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 3 NEW packages are going to be installed:
   courier-authlib courier-imap maildrop


And I'm not prepared to install courier-imap as I'm afraid would cause 
problems with the already running dovecot (imap).

I had a look at maildrop.html and maildropfilter.html. It appears a 
powerful but complex tool. The language is described (it's a man page, so 
it's man's style), but there are no examples that I could find. 
Translating my 1500 lines of procmail would be daunting, so I prefer not 
to even try. If I had to, I would look at a specific tool for dovecot 
instead.

One of the things about procmail is that it does not matter if I use 
dovecot or plain folders. Yes, it has some caveats. If a recipe is 
broken, email can be dropped in the next, unrelated, folder. But I know 
how to cope with that... I have not yet lost a single email. Yet :-)

But yes, I would like a _generic_, fully mantained, procmail thing or 
replacement.

- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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