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Re: Stopping a loop

2001-11-29 13:14:14
Justin followed up, discussing the relative merits of

 :0:
 * conditions
 | filtering_program >> mailbox

vs.

 :0f
 * conditions
 | filtering_program
  :0A:
  mailbox

| I've got the 2nd one implemented
| at the moment though and it's working great.  It's a little more my
| style I think.  Thanks for the info

You're welcome, and good luck.  I prefer it as well; it saves forking a
shell to handle the appending, which the first one requres.  Apparently it's
a little more work for procmail to run a filtering recipe than to save to a
program, but I'd imagine that forking a shell is heavier yet.


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