Re: Mailing list manager on NetBSD

[edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:29:04AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:16:22PM -0600, edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost wrote:
> > 
> > The last maintainer of procmail says not to use it. Thats reason enough
> > for me not to.
> > 
> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141634350915839&w=2
> > 
> 
> Oh, wonderful.  A quick search shows that the most likely replacement is
> maildrop but that does not easily do some things that procmail will do
> (e.g. pipe mail to a script which I can see people would consider
> dangerous but damn convenient when processing automated messages)
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn
> "We are were wolves",
> "You mean werewolves?",
> "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely",
> "Oh"

Take a look at fdm. It can be used to fetch from imap/pop and deliver
locally or take messages from stdin and deliver them. The config allows
for piping through and executing external commands. Its syntax is
similar to pf.

Edgar