BILL KUEHNLEILL, <bill(_at_)NetSrv(_dot_)net>, who has agreed to host a
beginners
list, should enough interest be shown. This seems an ideal solution to
help keep the current procmail/smartlist list focused for the more
advanced users. I will be the first to join! Would the veterans of
this list concur that this is a good idea? Your thoughts would be
appreciated.
Of course the consensus of the list will out on this
issue -- however I think that splitting the list
along the lines of "basic" and "advanced" would be a
bad idea.
With only a few people actively helping with the more
basic questions the list can be amenable to both.
Oddly enough I would still consider myself to be
a "basic" or "intermediate" level procmail user.
All those weird :0 flags still give me fits and I
break my recipes as often as I fix them (as the
half dozen people who sent requests to my info bot
last night and the several people who sent subscribe
requests to sysadmin-talk might have noticed).
For example:
Last night I broke my infobot. Now I have
a bunch of messages in my 'procmail.backup'
file that I'd like to spit back through the
procmail file to "re" process.
I know it's possible -- so now I'm hunting
through the man pages to figure it out.
I'll probably blow it on the first try.
Hold on a sec.....
Ahhh, there it is. Let's try:
formail -s /usr/local/bin/procmail < procmail.backup
I probably should have locked that
down before opening it -- but, luckily,
with my feed I don't have to worry about that
much (uucp set to call my feed every hour).
Now, would that be a "basic" or an "advanced" topic.
Jim Dennis,
Starshine Technical Services