Re: [Fetchmail-users] Procmail filtering question

[Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...>]

On 28/05/2020 22.54, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 28.05.20 um 21:32 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
>> On 28/05/2020 21.19, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 07:59:37PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>> On 28/05/2020 16.57, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>>>> Am 26.05.20 um 12:36 schrieb Richard Kimber via Fetchmail-users:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This has been a normal format since 1993 or so (RFC 1522, now RFC
>>>>> 2047).
>>>>>
>>>>> Everyone just stop using that unmaintained (for almost 20 years)
>>>>> pile of
>>>>> design garbage called procmail.
>>>>
>>>> And use what, then?
>>>
>>> maildrop? (possibly courier-maildrop)
>>
>> I considered that once, but in my distribution of choice it meant
>> installing the entire courier thing, and that was problematic (I use
>> dovecot). I did not find out how to replace procmail with maildrop.
> 
> Dovecot has Sieve and dovecot-lda or however it's called these days,

The man page of dovecot-lda doesn't explain how to do filtering. I have 
used dovecot-lda called from inside procmail, to do the delivery, but 
after some years I reverted it, because it deletes flags such as "read" 
or "replied".

Sieve I have not tried.


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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)