Somewhere I got the idea that the hallmark 'From ' line and space at
the end that are the earmarks of unix-message format, were required
for procmail to work. Is this not the case? Still haven't had a
chance to experiment to find out for sure.
You really only need the "From " line if you're storing more than one
message in a single file; that line is used as a delimiter in the
commonly used Berkely mailbox format.
So if you're feeding one message at a time into procmail, there's
no need to add the leading "From ". If you want to save all messages
into a single file and have it readable by most mail-aware software,
then you'll need to pipe it into formail first. This generates a
leading "From " line:
formail < message > mbox.out
Of course, locking, etc. come into play if this is being automated...
Since I think I'm straying from the realm of MHonArc, send me a personal
reply if you have any questions or anything...
Chris
