Re: Mailing list manager on NetBSD

[Edgar Pettijohn <edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost>]

On Jan 10, 2019 10:16 PM, Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:07:02PM -0600, edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
>
> Sorry, not for me, as you say, fdm wants to talk to pop/imap.  The
> situation where I use procmail I am using it in my .forward so the
> filtering happens when the mail is delivered.

You should check out the MANUAL for fdm on GitHub. There is a section for using it from a .forward file. 

>
> I wonder how hard it would be to fix the issues found by the fuzzers.
> To my mind, just because the code base is old doesn't mean it needs to be
> thrown out.  Escpecially when nothing else covers the same
> functionality.
>
> -- 
> Brett Lymn
> "We are were wolves",
> "You mean werewolves?",
> "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely",
> "Oh"

I'm a big fdm advocate. It can do a lot. It all comes down to personal preference though.

Edgar