era eriksson writes on 23 October 1997 at 21:03:52
Like I said in a different message, I would never actively promote an
i flag other than when the user sees unwanted warnings in the log file
(and even then, how do you know they're unwanted?)
I had such messages showing up in my LOG file at one time because of
not using the "i" flag; now I have the following in my ~/.procmailrc
# let procmail do the work of pitching the headers, reduce the
# current message body to just $N lines
#
# Here's why the 'i' flag is needed (courtesy of Stephan):
# You told procmail to filter the entire mail (header and body), so it
# does and it attempts to write out header and body to the filter.
# Then procmail notices that not the entire body is being consumed.
# Procmail, being rather paranoid when it comes to delivery of mail
# assumes something went wrong and considers this a failure of the filter.
:0wifb
| head -$N
Dan
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