Re: Filtering

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 11:40 2000-01-26 +0100, Tage Borg wrote:
>Yes, ideally the MTA should handle the filtering. However, it is not
>uncommon that the user has no control over the MTA. Consider my ISP: I can
>connect and retrieve mail by POP3 (only) and I have no shell access. Without
>my own server (to which I forward mail from alla other accounts I have), I
>wouldn't have the possibility to use procmail.

The filtering could be done at the user's machine. If it's running Balsa,
then it can probably run procmail.

>And most un*xes do not
>have procmail installed by default anyways.

That could be a problem...

 Tony
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