Replacing procmail with maildrop

[andrew clarke]

On Sun 2011-09-25 22:01:13 UTC-0600, Warren Block (wblock at wonkity.com) wrote:

> Recent discussion here about the desirability of replacing procmail 
> finally convinced me to switch to maildrop.  It turned out to be 
> relatively painless.  I took some notes that may be helpful for others 
> considering the change:
> 
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html

Thanks for that.  Looks like I'll be migrating across to maildrop in
the next week or so :-)  Something you may want to add is that if you
use Maildir format and have this in ~/.procmailrc:

DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

You need the equivalent for maildrop's ~/.mailfilter:

DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/"

Without this, messages that were not filtered (ie. fell through) will be
appended to the mbox file, /var/mail/$USER.

Regards
Andrew