Era,
Cork is Ireland. We're located on the southeast coast about 3-4 hours
south of Dublin. It's the second largest city on the Island and quite a
nice place to live. Since I'm from Chicago (in the US <grin>) on
assignment here for about 18 months, I'm enjoying the opportunity to travel
and experience the culture
I saw the FAQ talking about the *robustness* of procmail but wanted to
have a bit more detail as to why it's considered more robust.
I too am a devoted perl user as is my colleague. She's very tempted to use
mailagent because it's written in perl and because supposedly Randal
Schwartz uses it. :)
Thanks for the help.
jte
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, era eriksson wrote:
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:38:14 +0000 (GMT),
John T Ellis <ellis(_at_)cork(_dot_)cig(_dot_)mot(_dot_)com> wrote:
> I was able to give her the salient points of why to use procmail however I
> could not speak intelligently about mailagent. Can anyone on this list
> provide me with some thoughts on why you should use procmail over mailagent
> or any other mail handling utility?
The Mail Filtering FAQ doesn't say anything explicitly really but
recommends Procmail over mailagent and <barf bag>filter</barf bag> --
at least in my reading, the text implies that Procmail is more robust.
Seems to me like Mailagent couldn't be a totally bad choice, but
then I'm a devoted Perl user, so maybe I'm a bit biased ;^)
[Mailagent is written in Perl, according to the FAQ.]
See for yourself:
<http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/filtering-faq.html>
(... or the same at <http://www.landfield.com/faqs/>, whichever is
closer to you. "Cork" sounds like Ireland but who trusts geography
these days :-)
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