[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

mailx or nothing! :)

On Dec 31, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
>
>> That's on the server side, yes? Or do I misunderstand? I DO NOT want to
>> mess with my e-mail server config whatsoever.
>
> The trade-off there is that a given server is probably less fragile
> than a given client. If the server supports SIEVE, you can do quite a
> bit of stuff without having to engage the client at all, and also
> without messing with the server's core configuration. You also get
> the benefit of not having to store a password locally.
>
> My $.02: Use SIEVE for everything it supports, and (as Ted and Leif
> said), use procmail for everything else. That way, if your client
> isn't available for some reason, you still get most of your processing
> functionality. This could let you defer having to fix it, if larger
> fires are burning.
>
> Also, if you're doing a lot of advanced processing, I suggest setting
> up a separate email box to receive most of the not-really-to-you stuff
> that you want to automate. Ideally, if you're playing
> admin-as-middleware as you describe, those messages should go to role
> accounts that you can carve off and hand to others later without
> having to unwind a bunch of you-specific filtering.
>
> OK, that was about $0.04. What's a power of two among friends? ;-)
>
> --
> Royce Williams
> ---------
> To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
>

Jim MacDonald
jim@macdonald.org

---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Mon Dec 31 19:02:23 2012