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formail "error" (was Vacation Procmail)

1999-12-28 23:53:58
Greg Waits asked,

| can anyone tell me if this is telleng me that my 'formail" program is not
| working?
| 
| "procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,msgid.cache"
| procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/formail"
| procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 msgid.cache"
| procmail: Unlocking "msgid.lock"

In order to work with procmail the easiest way, formail -D returns success
when a message is a duplicate and failure when it is not, so it's telling you
that formail failed to find the ID of that message already in the cache.  In
other words, it was a new message rather than a duplicate of one you'd re-
ceived before, and everything is working properly..

Newer releases of procmail give the message "Non-zero exit code" instead of
"Program failure" when a program called by procmail exits with non-zero status.

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