From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 10:23:52 PST
To: RGRIFFITH@sfasu.edu
Subject: Re: procmail: another question
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You wrote:

| Please excuse my ignorance, but will procmail run under DOS?  Will it
| download mail from a PopMail server?

	Procmail will run on the UNIX system that you connect to via
pop.  It processes mail, it doesn't transport it.  (It can, of course,
hand mail off to an MTA.)

	Procmail is a very versatile, relatively easy to use way of
processing mail.  Its most obvious function is to put mailing lists
into one or several folders, but it also can be made into a file
server*, automatically retrieve PGP keys, act as a basic remailer,
etc, etc.


Adam

*RTFM: procmailex(5)

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