Re: formail -D's files & their ever-increasing size

Robert Brown (apparently robertb(_at_)barra(_dot_)com, but his headers say
dummy(_at_)emf(_dot_)net) wrote,

| So, do older entries automatically get pruned?

Not exactly; they get overwritten.  When the file reaches maximum size,
formail starts clobbering entries from the top, marking the current endpoint
with two nulls.  When it gets to the bottom, it starts again at the top.