Era Eriksson <reriksso(_at_)cc(_dot_)helsinki(_dot_)fi> wrote:
Yes, well, from a mostly aesthetic point of view, I think it would be
helpful and certainly more intuitive if the following could be
rewritten as one rule with many OR cases:
I can hardly imagine a good (and readable!) regexp to handle these in
one rule.
How's this for a change?
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# The installed procmail is a very old one, can't use :0
In that case, pervert the above to:
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For one thing, adding a new case would entail adding a whole new
rule, which means four new lines to an already unfocused piece of
code.
Once could always write in a macro language and generate the .procmailrc
file from there. Then again, when procmail supports functions, this
becomes easier to do as well.
(And then they'll ask for a mechanism to OR ANDed ORs ;^)
And they do.
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Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
"And now for something *completely* different!"