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Re: Procmail 4.0 WishList

2004-06-27 01:45:16
On Jun 26, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Professional Software Engineering wrote:

Great, so the new procmail still has to parse OLD procmail scripts. 'cept that regexp lines differ.
That isn't going to SIMPLIFY anything ...

It's gonna simplify comprehension.
"Mastering Regular Expressions" is a good read.
It points out that there are MANY different kinds of RegExps out there.
ProcMail has many "False Friends" built in to it that does NOT make a SysAdmin's job easier.

- it's going the make the code that much more complicated for no good reason.

It's going to make some of it more complex, and other parts simpler.
And there is a very good reason.

Not an option all users have.

Normal user's don't use Procmail.
Admins and wannabes do.
Currently, they're about the only ones who can.

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