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Date:  Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:07:18 +0100
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:11510] Re: What really happeded to the mail
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200712180407.19120.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
In-Reply-To:  <BAY129-DAV6C17D6FA3B74C19C34D6ACA630 (at mark) phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY129-DAV6C17D6FA3B74C19C34D6ACA630 (at mark) phx.gbl>
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Hi Zeffie,

> While the idea of using the /etc/procmailrc file is very creative,  But
> IMHO it's a bad idea.  It means that every email that goes through the
> server has to use that file.

Err ... excuse me, but that's quite cute. As you know (or ought to know) the 
manpages for Procmail clearly state how when and if $HOME/.procmailrc 
and /etc/procmailrc come into play. See "man procmail".

You probably have spent too much time on the RaQ4's and with the broken 
Procmail that Cobalt had hacked together and where several stock features had 
been broken. But even there /etc/procmailrc would be used according to design 
if and when it was present.

CentOS as well as CentOS + BlueQuartz have been and are using /etc/procmailrc 
by design and intent to give the sysadmin the flexibility he needs to switch 
mailboxes globally from MBOX format to MAILDIR format or back. That way it 
also retains the ability to act as general purpose mailfilter.

> Fast solution rpm -Uvh --force http://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/51/[...]
>
>Better Solution.. http://www.bqforge.com/

People who install your unsupported third party deamons and services (may that 
be Apache or Procmail) will most likely face quite steep obstacles during the 
upgrade process once BlueQuartz goes into the next phase and 5200 (Ellis) is 
released. Don't forget to mention that as well.

If you intend to contribute to the BlueQuartz project you should maybe talk to 
Hisao or Yasuda and contributions are certainly welcome. If you do, then you 
can make sure that the ugrade goes smooth for your users/clients as well.

But If you're just here to advertise your own fork of BlueQuartz and want to 
sow dissent, then this is probably the wrong list for that and you should 
keep it on bqforge.com.

-- 
With best regards,

Michael Stauber