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[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:18:56AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> No offense guys, but this argument is starting to sound just a *little*
> strange.  :)  It doesn't matter which is "better" to use, procmail or
> fetchmail, because truthfully, to an end user they both *suck* as far as
> ease-of-use (sorry, but I've used both).

I realize the point you're making, but I'd like to point out
that fetchmail and procmail are two totally different
programs serving totally different needs: procmail filters
your mail; fetchmail downloads mail from a remote server and
hands it off to your local machine -- which may then filter
it through procmail.

I agree that procmail and fetchmail have bad UI. But I think
we could build a good UI on top of both -- which would be
good, because they're both infinitely expressive tools for
handling their specific tasks. They each do one thing and do
it well -- which is what open-source tools are supposed to
be about.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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