Alvaro Fdez Lago seems to have said:
Ricky Roque wrote:
The manual on procmailrc says the start of the recipe is ":".
How is the number that follows that is used. I've seen
sample recipes that use ":0" , ":1", etc, but I do not have any
idea how these numbers are determined.
They are of historical interest. Don't worry about them
anymore. Just get a recent version of procmail and use
:0
As said from the procmailrc man page, that's just a need for all
of your recipes - it must begin with ":0" (plus any flags and/or
lockfiles statements)
(am I right, Stephen?)
I'm not Stephen but I've heard (and seem to recall)
that the :x used to a count of how many of the
subsequent lines were part of this recipe -- or how
many of them were conditions for this recipe.
Later :0 meant that procmail should parse them and
automatically deal with however many conditional
and other lines it found.
I'm not even sure if :x (for values of x other than
0) is even supported in recent versions of procmail.
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