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authorGrigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@gmail.com>2010-05-11 22:25:17 +0200
committerDavid Somero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-11 22:25:17 +0200
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fdm is a program to fetch mail and deliver it in various ways depending on a
-user-supplied ruleset. Mail may be fetched from stdin, IMAP or POP3 servers, or
-from local maildirs, and filtered based on whether it matches a regexp, its
-size or age, or the output of a shell command. It can be rewritten by an
-external process, dropped, left on the server or delivered into maildirs,
+user-supplied ruleset. Mail may be fetched from stdin, IMAP or POP3 servers,
+or from local maildirs, and filtered based on whether it matches a regexp,
+its size or age, or the output of a shell command. It can be rewritten by
+an external process, dropped, left on the server or delivered into maildirs,
mboxes, to a file or pipe, or any combination.
fdm is designed to be lightweight but powerful, with a compact but clear
configuration syntax. It is primarily designed for single-user uses but may
-also be configured to deliver mail in a multi-user setup. In this case, it uses
-privilege separation to minimise the amount of code running as the root user.
+also be configured to deliver mail in a multi-user setup. In this case,
+it uses privilege separation to minimise the amount of code running as
+the root user.
+
+NOTE: fdm requires tdb which is also available on SlackBuilds.org.