mail filter in python?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > http://www.procmail.org
> 
> The procmail syntax is really obfuscated. What about creating a mail
> filter with a Python syntax? Shouldn't be too difficult, just create
> some functions (drop, match_header) and execfile() a file with the
> rexec module...

   Welcome to the wonderful world of Security! :))) (and locking problems)
   Procmail, being here for a long time, has a LOT of builtin mechanisms
for locking, security checks, portability and so on.
   It would be hard to reimplement all that from scratch :(

Oleg.
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