MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list procmail recipe

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Didier Casse [mailto:didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Cc: bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca
> Subject: Re: Mailing list procmail recipe
> 
> 
> >Anyone have a procmail recipe for mailing lists like this 
> one that do not
> >add the mailing list name to the subject field?
> 
> >I want to grab them and put them in my mailing list imap folder
> 
> 
> I use this in my .procmailrc
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> #Fedora Mailing list ####################
> 
>  :0
>  * ^From:.*fedora-list at redhat.com*
>  ${MAILDIR}/FEDORA
> 
>  :0
>  * ^To:.*fedora-list at redhat.com*
>  ${MAILDIR}/FEDORA
> 
>  :0
>  * ^Cc:.*fedora-list at redhat.com*
>  ${MAILDIR}/FEDORA
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> where MAILDIR=${HOME}/mail  .
 
After going through this thread. I just need to ask another stupid
question. What's the major benefit (newb) for one to be using 
procmail to filter emails (besides filtering *.exe *.pif etc viruses)
versus that which is offered by MUAs such as Evolution. 
(i'm on evolution)

Both serves the same purpose right? I know IMAP is a better (from what I 
hear. Pls don't make this an argument) vs Mbox. but mbox format is better
for archiving/writing to CDR. 

Since I'm using Mbox format, I might need to re-word the above recipe to 
put into my ~/home/evolution/local/subfolders/Linux/subfolders/Fedora
right?

But I digress. What's the benefit of using procmail vs MUA filters???