Re: Filtering

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 26 Jan, Axel Eble wrote:
> [...]
>> 
>> procmail starts upon boot on all Linux systems whether you use it or
>> not.  You can't waste resources that are already in use.
> 
> Wrong. Procmail is often called by sendmail whenever it delivers a message 
> locally. Procmail is not a process that gets started whenever the system boots.

Yes, that's true: procmail is started only at the delivery. Anyway, I
think the anti-filtering argument is convincing: the Unix philosophy
says that it's MTA's duty to provide filtering, not MUA's. It's better
to contribute a GUI setup tool to procmail (and possibly a way to
start it also from balsa) than add this kind of code to balsa.

Pawel