Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] : Filters patch against 1.2.0 [e.allaud@wanadoo.fr]

[Raven <dmstowell ameritech net>]

On 2001.09.21 15:47 Andy Piper wrote:
> 
> Indeed. The biggest issue I have with Balsa is the lack of
> inbuilt filtering - your patches are great - looking forward to
> joining the main codebase!
> 

I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree on that. I'm not a coder in balsa,
but use it to the exclusion of other MUAs, and find that using procmail is
far preferable to the kind of built-in filtering that is being proposed.
That strike me more along the lines of a M$-Outlook all-in-one approach, as
opposed to the "build several tools that each does their job well"
approach. If built-in filtering *is* added to the main product, I would
strongly suggest that the option to use procmail instead be included in the
Preferences, as it is now.

Now, if someone wants to write a GUI that writes .procmailrc files, I would
be interested - I would ever propose writng that myself, if I can write it
in python (C not being a specialty of mine).

Raven
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