On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:10 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Craig White wrote:
And, of course, going to each user that has gone through the trouble of learning procmail's line-noise syntax and explaining that he'll have to throw that out and start over with sieve.
2 - few users are invested in procmail scripts that I have seen
ouch - was not aware I would lose my beloved procmail
[herrold@swampfox .procmail]$ wc -l *c | tail -2 ; pwd 159 zz_filingrc 7262 total /home/herrold/.procmail
4 - as you point out yourself, procmail's syntax is pretty much impossible for end users and sieve, though slightly less powerful is
yeah ... but I have many years invested in those 7k lines of mungeing ;)
---- The Procmail way... # fedora-list list :0: * ^TO_fedora-list@redhat.com mail_folder/fedora
The sieve way... # Fedora-list if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "X-BeenThere" "fedora- list@redhat.com" { fileinto "INBOX.fedora"; stop; }
not all that problematic but I appreciate the tendency to not change things that are working. It's just so much faster - even on my 1 user setup at home and incredibly so much faster in multi-client environments.
Craig