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[Victor Sudakov]

Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>On 2018-12-14 11:27, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
>> > DEFAULT=/path/to/maildir/ procmail /dev/null
>> >
>> > will work (but I try to avoid procmail for data-critical tasks).
>>
>> May I ask why? procmail has been in my ~/.forward for two decades,
>> with lots of rules, and I've not seen any problems from it.
>
>Because I have seen its source code, and tried to hack it :-)

Please name a couple of horrible consequences that could happen to my 
mail because of procmail. I'm not doubting your words, I just want to 
be aware.

In all these years, I've seen only one really annoying thing: one of 
my users uploaded a procmailrc with MSDOS-style CR/LF line endings, 
and this was very tricky to find out and fix.

OTOH, FreeBSD's awk is also intolerant to CR/LF line endings and it's 
not a reason not to use it.

>
>> > Lastly, are you sure you need IMAP and dovecot at all?
>>
>> Sure. First of all, other users need it, and I don't like the idea of
>> personal settings for myself.  Then, I like to use a mobile app
>> (AquaMail) for mail access when on the road.
>
>Yes, that's certainly a reason.  Too bad; in my case I and the few other
>users all agree that email (a relatively slow and deliberate mode of
>communication on a modern scale) doesn't mix well with "on the road",
>unlike SMS.

You are correct about communication per se. But being able to read 
mailing lists on the road is precious. I usually mark as unread the 
interesting messages, and reply to them later when I'm at my desktop.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/