[imp] Prerequisites for horde and imp head

[Scott Martin]

So is it the same thing as sendmail? fetchmail? I don't understand the
difference. Is it just a preference thing like whether to use MySQL or
PostgreSQL for your database?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Hawley" <hawley_p@ociweb.com>
To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] Prerequisites for horde and imp head


> Scott Martin wrote:
> >
> > What is procmail? Is it a program that can be used in place of
fetchmail?
>
> taken from www.procmail.org:
>
> > Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort
> > your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient
> > when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising
> > your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail
> > arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation
> > for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain
> > incoming mail automatically to someone.
>
> most commonly, it allows one to file imp messages in to one's lists-imp
> 'folder', emails from one's sweetie in to one's private-love-letters
> 'folder', etc.
>
> check out
> http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html for a
> procmail FAQ
>
> and http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/index.html for Fetchmail info.
>
> Patrick
>
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