<pipe-message> vs. <save-message> / <pipe-entry> vs. <save-entry>

[raf]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 06:23:19PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg <kh at panix.com> wrote:

> Procmail is badly outdated,

I might be the only person that thinks this, but...

If it's still in use and still usable, it's not "outdated".
It's just "stable". :-)

> and it's a zombie, unmaintained for many years.

And yet, Linux distributions (and presumably OpenBSD)
manage to apply security patches and keep it compiling
on modern systems. That counts as maintenance to me.
It just isn't developed anymore.

> I suggest that you consider some other delivery agent.
> The program fdm looks promising, though I haven't used it.
> 
> Here's a Wikipedia article.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_delivery_agent>

Sieve might be another good one to look at. But I haven't
used it.

cheers,
raf