+--- In our lifetime, Ronan Mullally ronan@iol.ie wrote: | | | options I've come up with so far are to use procmail as the local agent | or to install qmail which uses a mail directory containing a single file | per message.
Ack! procmail in large installations is evil. We went that route a long time ago. I have hated myself ever since. If you have a large volume of mail deliveries, imagine having to spawn a large process for each piece of mail you deliver. Yowsa. It really killed our mail machine after some time. The reason we went with it (at the time) was because we were doing a BSD -> Solaris transition and had not spent enough time on the delivery agent (we also started doing home dir mail delivery in this transition). procmail is cool for filtering and some other things.
better choice is to hack mail.local (or the delivery agent of your choice) to do what you are trying to acomplish.
Yes, this really has deviated from talking about filers.
Alexei