Guy Geens <Guy(_dot_)Geens(_at_)elis(_dot_)rug(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be> writes:
Actually, according to my man pages, formail reads the entire input
before exiting. I tried the i flag (and also w), but the problem still
remains. I tried running formail from the command line, but it still
returns the same exit code.
From the HISTORY file...
1995/10/29: v3.11pre4
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Changes to formail:
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- When splitting and a maximum number of message was being
specified, formail erroneously returned EX_IOERR
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Philip Guenther