[RndTbl] procmail replacement?

Adam Thompson athompso at athompso.net
Fri Nov 25 14:40:09 CST 2016


On 2016-11-25 14:22, Theodore Baschak wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Kevin McGregor 
>> <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've read that procmail is somewhat deprecated. Is this true? Is 
>> anyone still using it regardless? What replacements are there that you 
>> recommend?
> 
> I'm using sieve for filtering mine where it does point at my MX.
> Not b/c I was aware of a deprecation or anything like that, but purely
> because it was in the recipe for the mail server I run.
> 
> I actually had to go in and update my sieve rules when the list-id for
> roundtable list recently :-)

FWIW, I also use Sieve as implemented in my MDA, which is Dovecot.  
Works just as well as Procmail and a heck of a lot more readable.  
Implementations of tools to manage the ruleset are a bit... 
questionable, though.  Roundcube has a decent rule editor, and so does 
Thunderbird (when it works).
-Adam


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