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Re: procmail newbie question..........

1997-04-24 06:33:00
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:42:06 +0200 (METDST),
Peter Aundal Toft <pto(_at_)imm(_dot_)dtu(_dot_)dk> wrote:
Is the some doc about the seperator fields
:0 fBw
:0 c
and so. I wanna know whether the :0 is THE seperator, :1 means nothing or
what.

Yes, there is a manual page -- actually, four of them. Try `man
procmail' and when you've finished reading that you will have picked
up where to find the rest. 

Historically, you had to use :n where n was the number of lines in the
following recipe. This was changed because it was cumbersome; today,
practically everyone uses :0. (To keep the syntax unambiguous, you
have to use a '*' at the beginning of each recipe line when using :0.)

This information is all available from the Net, of course; you can
pick up all sorts of things e.g. by browsing the archive of this
mailing list.
  <http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/>

Hope this helps,

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