On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:10:22PM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered:
> <quote who="Jon Biddell">
>
> > NAh... More like about 17 times...:-)
>
> I didn't even notice. You too can completely miss out on other SLUGgers
> oopses by placing the following lines in your ~/.procmailrc:
>
> # DUPLICATE REMOVAL
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | $FORMAIL -D 8192 .msgid.cache
>
Iff (If and only if) formail understands the type of mailbox you are trying to delievr
to. formail refuses to grok Maildir's, so I can't use it.
> Then you just have to have your MTA delivering via procmail, or hack your
> .forward to deliver through it. Them's the easy bits.
>
Pah, I have that, and no .forward (a .qmail instead :-)
> Okay, procmail is a complete and utter con. It's magic, obtuse, obfuscated
> and objectionable (ob!ob!ob!) -> but it does some really cool stuff
> nonetheless.
>
> Cor, sounds like PERL!
>
Only because they both use regexp, and have a learning curve like running up a cliff?
Depends on your point of view. Perl was easier to learn than procmail, for me, but
then again, I have a really anal qmail Maildir NFS setup here, so that has to count
for some of the evilness. :-)
> - Jeff
>
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