on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:21:22PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Anyway, let's start with market research:
- who would be interested in a friendlier procmail?
procmail is getting quite dated now, regexes are very useful though, and as long as you don't make mistakes it's great. something that would be nice is scoring and more intelligent filtering. this would need interfacing with the mua though.
- should it have both GUI and file-based configuration methods?
only if running the GUI doesn't cause the file based configuration to become unmanagable. an ipfilter like configuration of mail filtering could prove interesting. (make a general statement at the top, and narrow down matching as you go down further)
- what alternatives are already out there? I can't seem to find a
good one, but maybe one of you uses one already?
the majority of my procmail rules end up being for filtering out mailing lists into various folders. there seem to be four basic mailing list systems in wide spread use: ezml, majordomo, listserv (less now though) and mailman. so a general way of filtering each could be easily worked out.
once you have basic rules to identify lists, then the other stuff is likely to be lower volume and easier to look after. because of this i currently have a script that keeps track of the mailing lists i'm on (it knows how to subscript and unsubscribe), where the mail should go, etc. it doesn't yet generate procmailrc yet though, i should really do this soon.