[Charlug] mail filtering programs

[Dennis Clark]

I had never heard of Yample before, so I took a look and found it is a
Perl script that uses Perl Mailtools. Mailtools is extremely versatile,
so it is more a matter of Yample's author not requiring any more
features of it than of your desired features being too hard to implement
in Yample.

If the only features you find lacking in Yample is matching on message
bodies and running messages through other programs, just about any Perl
hacker could add those features to Yample for you. They might even be
able to get those enhancements incorporated into the upstream version of
Yample, although it looks like nobody has touched the source in 5 years.

I don't know if any user-friendly Message Delivery Agents that support
regex matching of body contents in filter conditions. Procmail is the
only MDA I know of that supports it, and it's certainly not user-friendly.

Dennis

On 3/15/2009 1:58 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I tried Procmail, but found the syntax incomprehensible. I currently use 
> Yample, but it's not versatile enough. There appears to be no way to filter 
> on the message body or to run a message through a program, other than 
> Spamassassin or spamc, and then filter the output. What other filtering 
> programs are there, and how are they?
>