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From: Forrest Aldrich (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 11:55:29 EST
Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> [ ... ]
> Something I will point out, procmail is more fully-featured than
> sieve, mostly by design. procmail can do anything you could do if you
> were logged into the machine and had a shell. sieve has limited powers.
>
> So, it may not be possible to convert every procmail script to sieve.
>
>> I am by no means expert and it seems that your attitude might not
>> engender many others to volunteer their time to help you understand this
>> stuff.
>
>
> Actually, he was attributing the attitude to others, right? ;-)
No comment. ;-)
> We have had some internal discussions about finding a tech writer. We
> seem to go through tech writers quickly, perhaps unlike developers
> they are less likely to tolerate subscale wages for a more relaxed
> environment, or perhaps as a tech writer their environment is not in
> fact more relaxed. I don't know, I haven't been involved in exit
> interviews for any of those we lost.
>
> We're looking again, though I don't know that we've advertised a
> position.
Thank you this is good to know. As with other projects, occasionally a
succinct HOWTO or similar document often is very helpful.
Might it be wise to start pooling this information at the Cyrus Wiki as
a start?
I'm surprised at the apparent lack of coverage of Cyrus in the sysadmin
books out there. The best I could find is the slightly-dated nutshell
"Managing IMAP" book.
Thanks....
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