Re: mutt and filtering
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Thorsten Haude <mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-28-04 17:28]:
> >
> > Please do. Alas, all I ever see is talk about Procmail.
>
> Terrible, but then, perhaps you would like to read an article on
> linux.com about procmail:
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/27/0236228
Hmm... it says:
:0 :
* ^To:.*webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Adding the asterisk (^To:.*) will make the matching process case
insensitive.
What an odd claim to make. (Other nits about the article suppressed..)
procmail is one of a number of filtering LDAs; there are others. As has
been suggested, there's various tradeoffs between between ease of use,
power, learning curve, readability, resource consumption, and so forth.
Sometimes you don't see drawbacks in a tool until you've used it for a
while, and conversely it's easy to be overlook them once you've aligned
yourself with the idioms of the tool you're using. Of course if you've
invested some time in learning one tool that does the job, you might not
be tempted to look at another.
What was the mutt question, again? :-)
-mm-