[vox-tech] Maildrop

[Ken Bloom]

I just switched my procmail recipies to use maildrop instead. I  
actually think I prefer maildrop because the language is more flexible,  
because it's more of a sequential language (I also get to use a  
logical-or operator to combine pattern matches, something procmail  
apparently couldn't do easily).

For example, I was able to add one line of code in each of two places  
to make my spam and viruses get marked read and filtered to another  
folder, while procmail required an additional rule to correspond to  
each of 6 rules.

I thought I'd give you all the heads up if you're looking for the  
features it provides. Here's my .mailfilter for those who want to see.
========================================================================
MAILBOX=${HOME}/.mail
DEFAULT=$MAILBOX/inbox

if (/^Reply-To: *vox.*lugod/:h ||	\
    /^Subject: .*\[vox/:h )
{
	to $MAILBOX/lugod
}

if (/^Reply-To: .*shamash/:h )
{
	to $MAILBOX/jewish-lists
}

if (/Mailing-List: list NAJSA@yahoogroups.com; contact/:h ||	\
    /Mailing-List: list JewishClubMaoz@yahoogroups.com; contact/:h)
{
	to $MAILBOX/israel
}

#Begin Virus Detection

if      ( (                                                 \
		/zIGArlZWu25ux319xWpqnnNzppaWy46/:b &&      \
		/3EWC31mS40Zxr4uw6LXN8iZkuXmn5/:b &&        \
		/^Content-transfer-encoding: base64/:b      \
	) || (                                              \
		/swen/:b ||                                 \
		/gibe/:b                                    \
	) || (                                              \
		/RAV AntiVirus/:b                           \
	) || (                                              \
		/^Content-Type:.*name=".*\.exe"/:b          \
	) )
{
	xfilter 'reformail -I"Status: RO"'
	to $MAILBOX/util/probably-virus
}

# spam filtering

xfilter "${HOME}/bin/strip_spamassassin_report'
xfilter 'spamassassin -L'

if (/^X-Spam-Status: Yes/)
{
	xfilter 'reformail -I"Status: RO"'
	to $MAILBOX/util/probably-spam
}

to $MAILBOX/inbox


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