> Sorry Volker, my filter ate your previous mail. Could you please resend?
Perhaps we could come to some arrangement: you trim the useless quoting
off your posts, and I send you a copy privately ;)
This is also an excellent opportunity to introduce the first rule of
using procmail:
===> Before you do anything else, store a backup copy. <===
Right at the very top of your ~/.procmailrc put
##### Procmail
VERBOSE=no
#VERBOSE=yes # uncomment for a lot of logging
#LOGFILE=$HOME/t/pmlog # early logging start
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin
LINEBUF=8192
# Create your directories and set your variables here. Make sure not to
# bugger up.
LOGDIR=...
## saving to dated files
:0 i
MONTH=| date "+%Y%m"
##### Store a safety copy of each incoming mail
:0 c:
$LOGDIR/procmail$MONTH.backup
Ok so I use mbox files, sue me.
This takes care of
1) Lost mails while stuffing up^H^H^H^H^Hexperimenting with new
recipes.
2) Accidentally deleted mails.
3) It proves to yourself without reasonable doubt that you never
received email X. You wouldn't realise just how handy this is... (eg
when arguing with certain tertiary ISPs).
Ok, so you store a copy of each <anatomy> extender too. So what - a) you
never look at it, b) storage space is cheap.
HTH,
Volker
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