[Top] [All Lists]  PARP ::was::::Re: procmail abandonded?
2012-05-23 20:47:35  Has anyone looked at/or is using PARP as a
procmail replacement?  In my brief review, it seems to have
several pluses and minuses.  Thanks for any comments,   On
10/14/10 12:29 PM, Ed Blackman wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at
08:52:26AM -0500, cbarnard wrote: It works, so why mess with it?
It does what in needs, no more development is needed...  If
procmail was still processing the mail stream of 10 years ago,
I'd agree.  But increasingly I'm seeing headers that procmail
doesn't handle well without external help, especially RFC2047
encoded strings.  A user sees "Subject: test message" in their
mail reader, and creates a "^Subject: test message" recipe, but
doesn't understand why it doesn't match.  That's because it was
sent as =?ISO-8859-1?Q?test=20message?= or
=?UTF-8?B?dGVzdCBtZXNzYWdlCg==?= or even =?US-
ASCII?Q?test=20message?=.  Mail readers decode those strings for
display, procmail can't without  Shelling out to perl or whate