mail filter in python?

[Tres Seaver]

In article <87q016$rro$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Donn Cave  <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Quoth "Garrett G. Hodgson" <garry at sage.att.com>:
>...
>| that's two people who've pointed out the difficulty in getting it right.
>| perhaps a better approach is to build yourself a python syntax to
>| generate the crufty procmail syntax.
>
>If I'm not already counted among those two, make that three!
>But I don't know that it's not worth bothering with, it depends
>on one's ambitions.
>
>A recreational code abuser might have a little fun with this and 
>harm no one.  A very ambitious programmer might very well be able
>to contribute something that's substantially better than procmail -
>there's plenty room for improvement and no chance at all that procmail
>itself will improve.
>
>I personally wouldn't try to ``front end'' .procmailrc, unless maybe
>the object were a very constrained front end that simplified the issues
>for the kind of interface you'd get on a web form.  Otherwise, you have
>to learn more .procmailrc syntax to do it, than you'd have to learn just
>to use .procmailrc directly!  But I'm assuming the author would be the
>only user, perhaps that's not true.

I offer as a possible counterexample Eric Raymond's first serious use of
Python:  he built a Tk GUI to simplify configuring fetchmail.  The project
made a *serious* believer out of him, too -- and the tool works for *many*
more folks than ESR.

Tres.
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