Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:09:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Er... how long Message-ID: <199605291809.LAA13861@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960529092845.1764D-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at May 29, 96 09:33:58 am
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> > Incidentally, ELM also comes with "filter" (a sendmail .forward filter > > program) which allows you to filter out mail from different lists into > > different mail file folders so you don't have to deal with this manually. > > It's similar to procmail (so I've heard), but allegedly procmail is more > > capable. FWIW, here's a sample portion of my ~/.elm/filter-rules: > > For the record, if you use elm's filter, one day you *will* loose > mail. This is not a matter of if, but when. This is a platform > independent "feature", not a quirk in the freebsd version. Do > the right thing and use procmail. Unfortunately, the syntax of > procmail rules file are a little obtuse when compared to filter > but I guess it makes for faster parsing. What race condition do you believe exists such that this will happen? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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