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[ILUG] {LONG} sendmail smart host & procmail recipes

[ILUG] {LONG} sendmail smart host & procmail recipes

Liam Bedford lbedford at lbedford.org
Tue May 14 14:17:39 IST 2002


On Tue, 14 May 2002 14:08:56 +0100
kevin lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> blurted in message
20020514140856.B5001 at ie.suberic.net:

> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:34:51AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > I'm puzzled about this - my understanding is that procmail is an lda so
> > its filtration of messages takes place after they have arrived at your
> > box. Now
> 
> yes.
> 
> isn't there a filtering api coming into sendmail?  milter?
libmilter. Lars might know more, it's used in aMaViS.

but I don't think it can drop the mail before it has been sent. It has to
filter the whole thing.

if you want to save bandwidth, use fetchmail and procmail.

L.
-- 
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--------------| Guv: Oi. We don't call them that. We call
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