Re: [POLL]: Procmail or native gnus splitting ?

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> AFAIK, this is still 50%-50% and even with some good explanations, I
> still can't imagine myself trying to use an external tool to split my
> mails.

This is certainly not a bad decision.

> Just by curiosity, I have read a few messages talking about sieve, what
> is that ??

It's a language for specifying splitting, some IMAP servers (Cyrus in
particular) have Sieve support built-in.

For the most part, it does what procmail does, but procmail is more
powerful.  For instance, it can invoke commands which Sieve cannot do.
Some people might say that Sieve is preferable because the syntax is
easier on the eyes.  That's just a matter of taste, though.  After
all, I like Perl, weird syntax or not.
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