Re: Filtering
- From: Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Filtering
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:25:49 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Sarel J. Botha wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Isn't the idea for Balsa to get around using an MTA like sendmail?
No.
> Is balsa just a viewer for messages that have already been downloaded
> into mailboxes?
No.
Both pieces of rhetoric wrong :-)
It's not a goal for balsa to circumvent the idea of having a local MTA.
But, by supporting POP and IMAP, balsa provides the power necessary for
people whose mail is delivered to another machine.
Equally, balsa isn't *just* a viewer for messages in mailboxes, but that
is one thing it does do..
Personally, I have remote mail - via IMAP - but I *never* download them to
the local machine. The messages stay on the IMAP server, and that way I
can access them from anywhere on the internet.
But that's only one way of doing things :)
Jules
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