Re: Mail filtering without procmail using webmail client

From: J Cardella (dronf_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 28 Sep 2004 06:29:44 -0700

Mark Clements <mark.clements@kcl.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<41584a23$1@news.kcl.ac.uk>...
> J Cardella wrote:
> > Greetings --
> >
> > Is there any alternative to procmail available?
> <snip>
> This has nothing to do with perl. However...

Sorry, my reasoning was I am a fairly competent in Perl, so I would
write my own parser, but if anyone knew of something more readily
available I could use or mod, that's what I would do. I should have
phrased this " Are there any Perl alternatives to Procmail available."

CPAN has a couple solutions, but I think hosting policy negates me
using them.

Basically I need something in Perl which can run with the permissions
I have, without many bells and whistles (i.e. installed packages).

>
> >
> > Any mail gurus out there who can help? Searching the newsgroup
> > archives for "webamil without procmail" yeilds nothing.
> I'm not surprised...... However, there are a number of alternatives to
> procmail. You can set up filters in Imp (which is what I assume you mean
> by Horde), or there are a number of programs that will run on the server
> eg sieve or maildrop, but plugging these into the MTA is dependent on
> the MTA itself and the hosting policy.
>
> Mark

I've looked into Imp (you are correct with your Horde assumption) but
I think it only allows delivery to a script, not to a file. I have not
seen sieve or maildrop, I'll look into those now.

Thanks for your time,
Joel

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