The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.
Archive-name-to-be: mail/procmail-faq-pointer
URL: http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/
Last-modified: Tue Jul 22 19:12:29 1997 EET DST +0300
Posting-frequency: I was thinking, every 17 days or so
Clarification: (17 is the most random number)
Obfuscation: (Call it that instead if you will)
The Procmail Mini-FAQ and its companion Procmail Links page are
available at the following locations:
Procmail Mini-FAQ: <http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html>
Procmail Links: <http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/links.html>
This informational message is being sent out as a very informal test.
Please let me know what you think about this.
My current plan is to send this out every 17 days and see how people
react. If nobody reacts in any way, I will probably continue to send
it out this way, and/or ultimately seek news.answers approval for this
notice.
(I might not send it exactly 17 days from now -- sending is done by
hand after minor editing but I'm working on automating it. My local
inews is not working too well so I'm forced to post via Gnus for the
time being. Sorry to the list readers who see a butchered message.)
I am living under the impression that the vast majority of Usenet is
not particularly fond of fetching FAQs from the news spool now that
there is a viable alternative. If you do not agree, and would rather
see that I post the entire FAQ instead of just this notice, please let
me know. I will probably attempt to have the FAQ proper archived at
rtfm.mit.edu once I iron out the final glitches in the text-only
rendering.
If you would like to receive the FAQ by electronic mail, send a
message with the Subject: header "send mini-faq.txt" to the address
<era+pr(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi>
The Links page is not very useful if you do not have WWW access.
There is thus presently no mechanism in place for fetching that by
electronic mail.
/* era */
The following change log details recent developments since this
announcement was last posted. The WWW version has a full change log
which goes further back.
Mini-FAQ:
date: 1997/07/12
"Rescued" truncated data and the :i flag
date: 1997/07/11
Hopefully fixed most of what needs to be fixed for the
standalone text-only version. Can no longer justify calling
this the "Mini" FAQ. It's pretty big.
date: 1997/07/08
There is no ^FROM macro
date: 1997/07/07
More common gotchas: line-continuation backslash should always
have a space in front of it; formail -I and -A don't imply -X
date: 1997/07/05
Added note about Netscape incompatibility with <base> tag
Added Known bugs section (with "common gotchas" and "funny
quirks" ... not really sure what the difference between them is :-)
date: 1997/06/29
formail -rtzxTo: is the canonical way to get user(_at_)host out of a
From: address
Links:
date: 1997/07/11
Link to examples/advanced file from distribution package
Ariel's tutorial
date: 1997/07/10
Link to Eli's Perl-embedded version
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