On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
Is there an similar technique to LASTFOLDER for testing if a message has
been forwarded such as:
:0 c:
* ^TO.*\<bob\>
! bob(_at_)mail(_dot_)com
This does not appear to set any flags?
- Liston
Anyway, the following should illustrate:
# Clear the indication of whether delivery has taken place
# (this is in case there are recipes with the 'c' flag above
# this.
LASTFOLDER
:0 c:
* ^TObob\>
bob
:0 c:
* ^From.*\<bob\>
from-bob
:0 c:
* ^TObill\>
bill
# If one of the previous 3 recipes was invoked, LASTFOLDER will
# now be set. To check that we use David Tamkin's ${LF+!}
# trick: if LASTFOLDER is set, ${LASTFOLDER+!} expands to a '!',
# while if it's not set, it expands to nothing. The condition
# below will 'match' (be true) iff LASTFOLDER was set. We'll
# then drop the message as already handled, and let the rest of
# the .procmailrc handle those messages which haven't already
# been delivered, possibly via the implicit delivery to
# $DEFAULT. Yes, this is the reverse of what you originally
# proposed, but it's usually more flexible this way. Remember
# that the null regexp always matches.
:0:
* $ ! ${LASTFOLDER+!}
{
# drop the message as already delivered
HOST
}
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