From: Matt Armstrong <matt+dated+1008085867.42d5ed@...>
Date: 2001-12-07T00:51:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27700] Re: MailFilter WAS:RubyGarden Poll

Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@panix.com> writes:

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
>
>> There appears to be an assumption that needs to be corrected. Not
>> everyone is using procmail. ...
>
> I am getting up to speed in Ruby. I hear that Perl has a nice email
> filter that is easier to work with, than Procmail. I'm sure Procmail
> has the best RFC 822 compliance & robustness, but can be a beast to
> maintain.

Perl's mail filter is easier to work with than Procmail if you happen
to know Perl.  ;-)


> I have planned on a port of the Perl email filter to Ruby.  Does
> anyone have a Ruby email filter, already?  I'd appreciate any
> caveats, gotchas, tips, and especially, help, as well.

I am writing something very similar to Perl's Mail::Audit module.
Eventually I want it to be just a collection of loosely coupled
classes and modules for writing applications that do things to mail.
Right now, it can act as a simple LDA like procmail -- I just got it
to this point last night.  Next step is to package up a tarball and
list it on RAA as a "pre-alpha" version.  :-)


-- 
matt