Re: Killer app #493

[Lyndon Drake <lyndon kcbbs gen nz>]

On 24 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote:

> 
> Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> writes:
> 
> > On 22 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote:
> > 
> > > If it can handle bugtraq (including regular renewals), you get a
> > > prize.  :-)
> > 
> > It can't handle renewals because it doesn't process incoming mail, and it
> > needs to do that. A *lot* of the hooks for doing this are in there (i.e. I
> > foresaw the issue when writing it), but I still need a portable and
> > consistent way to say "deliver mail to this file". I am NOT going to
> > rewrite that part of procmail - best to modularize it so other programs
> > can use that as well. 
> 
> I think the best thing to do is for gmailman to generate procmail
> scripts that could be included in somebody's mail filtering setup.
> The scripts would recognize certain types of responses, and pass them
> to gmailman so it can take certain actions.
> 

If this happens (generating procmail scripts), it would be really cool if
gmailman generated a separate file from the normal .procmailrc.  Then
gmailman wouldn't have to worry about what else was in the .procmailrc,
and could overwrite anything in it, etc.  The real .procmailrc could then
use INCLUDERC directives to include gmailman's procmailrc files.

Lyndon