Re: assignment as an action

"Stefan Monnier" <stefan(_dot_)monnier(_at_)lia(_dot_)di(_dot_)epfl(_dot_)ch> 
writes:
>       FOLDER=inbox
>
>       :0
>       * ^From: toto
>       FOLDER=toto
>
>       :0
>       * ^From: tata
>       FOLDER=foo
>
>       ...
>
>       :0
>       | rcvstore +$FOLDER
>
> but this doesn't work because after
>
>       FOLDER=foo
>
> the processing is stopped. I tried adding "c" in the options after the ":0",
> but but it didn't really help because the assignment is then done in
> another fork of computation and doesn't influence the subsequent rules.
Plain assignments are not allowed as actions.  Procmail interpretes the
above as attempts to save to the folders "FOLDER=toto", "FOLDER=foo", etc.
The solution is to turn the action into a nested block:

:0
* ^From: toto
{ FOLDER = toto }

Philip Guenther