Re: "a" or "A" flag

On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 12:48:32 -0700 (MST),
Wotan <wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com> wrote:
> :0
> * ^Subject:.*(\$\$+|!!+)
> {
>      :0 c:
>      SPAM
>      :0
>      /dev/null
> }
What is fundamentally unclear to me is the utility of generate a
carbon copy only to immediately send it to /dev/null

    SPAM=SPAM
    # Change this to /dev/null when you feel confident

    :0:
    * ^Subject:.*(\$\$+|!!+)
    $SPAM

You will want to remove the lock when you start sinking stuff to
/dev/null, although in practice, newish versions of Procmail ought to
be smart enough to ignore the requested lock when it points to
/dev/null. (Unfortunately, putting the colon in a variable doesn't
seem to work. If you get bored, write a preprocessor which generates a
.procmailrc with appropriate locking for you.)

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