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Re: Explanation needed for error msg

1997-03-20 02:02:55
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 23:59:55 -0800 (PST),
"Stephen C. Hill" <steveh(_at_)nugrange(_dot_)vip(_dot_)best(_dot_)com> wrote:
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,/home/steveh/mail/msgid.cache"
procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/formail"

This means that formail returned an exit status of 1, which means the
message was not a duplicate. It's supposed to do that. If it succeeds
(i.e. if formail doesn't fail), the message is considered delivered
and processing stops.

/* era */

Tip:
 man formail procmailex
and while you're at it
 man procmail procmailrc

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