[Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?

[Kyle Wheeler]

On Tuesday, August 14 at 07:03 PM, quoth martin f krafft:
>> It also understands the 'seive' filter language (an alternative to
>> procmail).
>
>I don't consider it an alternative to procmail because you cannot
>pass mail to external programmes, like spamassassin or vacation.
>Sure, sieve has its own vacation module, but I find that to be
>rather limited. See this thread:
>
>  http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-August/024686.html

Well, the whole point of sieve, I believe, is to make it something 
that an admin would want to let arbitrary users modify on their own 
recognizance, and the ability to specify arbitrary programs to run 
would be just *asking* to be hacked.

But I understand your desire there. At that point, I'd say the heck 
with it, just use procmail and don't worry about deliver. That's what 
I do, and my users are all impressed with dovecot's snappiness, 
irregardless of (or despite) its indexing. In a word: don't solve a 
problem that doesn't exist. :)

~Kyle
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