Hi,
Now this manpage in 2.5.5 reads:
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Lexical structure
Most whitespace is generally ignored. The # character introduces a
comment running to the end of the line, which is also ignored. Unlike
other mail filters,
maildrop parses the filter file before taking any action with the
message. If there are syntax errors in the file, maildrop displays an
error message, and returns
EX_TEMPFAIL. That should cause the mail message to remain in the queue,
and, hopefully allow the problem to be corrected, without bouncing any
mail.
Note
In maildrop, the end of line is a lexical token. In order to continue a
long statement on the next line, terminate the line with a backslash
character.
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It does not say "whitespace is ignored",. It is significant token
separator. So | and next word has to have space to be separate token.
At least, with new manpage, this is clearly documented.
Osamu
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