[Dovecot] procmail vs. maildrop (was: Maildir, procmail,
and locks)
Matthias Andree
matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Jun 5 23:15:35 EEST 2006
Mark Nienberg <gmane at tippingmar.com> writes:
> Thanks. I'll study it a bit more and then test it. I get the
> impression that maildrop is being maintained more actively than procmail
> so changing now (before my new dovecot server goes into production)
> might be a good idea.
Definitely. procmail hasn't been touched since the now almost
five-year-old v3.22 release. OTOH, the procmail maintainer is happy with
the way it works with the fallthrough-behavior; and has to date always
responded very quickly when I Cc:d him on some issue.
I recently discovered one thing that procmail does that maildrop can't.
(CC'ing Sam Varshavchik on this one): procmail can deliver the same
message to several users from the command line. I don't currently know a
way do to that with maildrop without copying the message to a temporary
file and running maildrop twice. Not that it matters often, the question
usually crops up on the fetchmail list when people don't want to install
a fully-fledged MTA.
# procmail -d foo bar
-> delivers the message from stdin first to the user foo and to the user bar
# maildrop -d foo bar
-> delivers to the user foo and sets the variable $1 to "bar".
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Matthias Andree
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