Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Mike Meyer]

"Dr.Ruud" <rvtol+news at isolution.nl> writes:
> Let procmail make all those decisions and transformations for you.

I prefer qmail dot-commands. It provides an architecture for
controlling the delivery of email, and lets you write the smarts of
the mail processing in whatever language you want.

> I have a maildir called 'raw' where I keep a copy of all non-spammish
> mail.

I call mine archives. I also remove duplicate email before it gets to
the mailbox.

> Copies of the same messages also get delivered in the right mailboxes,
> by procmail.

Yup, qmail does that for me.

> A message that contains only html, is piped though lynx -dump -stdin.

I build a bounce message explaing that it wasn't read, and send that
back to the sender.

> A message containing both HTML and a plain/text-part, is de-mime-d,
> leaving only the plain/text-part (unless that part contains only a silly
> remark).
> Footers and long signatures are limited or even deleted. Etc., etc. (I
> like my mail cooked.)

I don't do those things. Then again - my mail reader makes deals with
them on request.

> One of the reasons that I started with Perl, is that I want to rewrite
> procmail in Perl.

Try qmail - it may solve the problem with a lot less work.

    <mike
-- 
Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.