mail filter in python?

[Garrett G. Hodgson]

François Pinard wrote:

> > What about creating a mail filter with a Python syntax?  Shouldn't be too
> > difficult, just create some functions (drop, match_header) and execfile()
> > a file with the rexec module...
> 
> Do not underestimate what `procmail' does.  It has a _lot_ of features, and
> was debugged over many years, by a rather careful programmer.  Of course,
> one may try and do better, this is often how programs evolve.  But the
> overall problem might much, much more obfuscated than procmail syntax :-).

that's two people who've pointed out the difficulty in getting it right.
perhaps a better approach is to build yourself a python syntax to
generate the crufty procmail syntax.

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