On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Raider wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Mike wrote:
> > >   This works.  I tested it.  But I believe it slows down the sorting
> > > process.  I'm looking for something fast and that would imply the use (if
> > > possible) only of $HOME/.procmailrc.  I'm not sure this is possible.
> > I'm not sure it does slow it down, thinking about it.  I don't think there
> > is any way you can do it without having the output of formail piped into
> > procmail.  Given that you are sending the output to procmail, I would have
> > thought it would probably be faster to put the extra rules in a second
> > (smaller) script than having more in a larger script.
> 
>       This would imply to load again procmail (another prcess) and than

Agreed, but I don't think there is any way you can avoid loading another
procmail.

> another rc file.

The rc is going to be smaller than loading another copy of the same rc
file again, surely?

> For me it looks like slowing down.  I have a 486 with 8M
> ram and a 14.4k modem.  So speed is vital.
> 
Sure.  Speed is good, and I agree that this solution is not ideal, but I
can't see an easy way to improve it atm.

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Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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