Wed 98-02-04 era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> list.procmail
| On 04 Feb 1998 11:49:14 +0200, <jari(_dot_)aalto(_at_)poboxes(_dot_)com>
wrote:
| > The reason I was asking, was that when I was about to drop a message to
| > a folder I wanted to write a message to my Emacs biff log too.
|
| If that's all you want, why not log it from TRAP?
|
| TRAP='echo "folder: $LASTFOLDER" >>$biff'
Yup, TRAP woudl be fine but in my case not all drops are logged(mailing lists)
and I attach additional lines from the message when dropping to folder
(like from work NOK case reports).
| I'm not sure how having a separate log file is better than using the
| log Procmail is already writing for you.
Eh, Era, you know how much cruft is written to procmail log.
It serves its purpose for debugging. The biff log (tail -f process) that I'm
running in Emacs window looks like this (with colors that you don't see
here):
1998-02-04 delver(_at_)company(_dot_)fi T10 SYTE: NOK state report
Fault: E012638 dbrmui: Multiple Managed Objects cannot be removed
[my; work-nok]
1998-02-04 omcman(_at_)company(_dot_)fi "T10 CM Local Environments updated"
[my; work-localenv]
1998-02-05 34598712(_at_)msn(_dot_)com ALERT - Internet Fraud and Spying
[jaube; MessageId; ALERT - Internet Fraud and Spying]
1998-02-05 world_report(_at_)list(_dot_)geocities(_dot_)com The GeoCities
World Report
[my; null; GeoCities World Report <world_report]
Cheers!
jari