On Wed, 29 Apr 98 11:28:57 -0400, Timothy J Luoma
<luomat+Lists/procmail(_at_)luomat(_dot_)peak(_dot_)org> wrote:
Will
* ^(ABC|XYZ)
always prefer ABC and only use XYZ if ABC doesn't exist, or will it use XYZ
if it comes first (higher in the headers)?
As usual, that is extremely simple to test for yourself:
$ cat scratch/moo.rc
SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/scratch DEFAULT=moo.out VERBOSE=yes
:0:
* ^\/(ABC|XYZ)
moo.out
# Granted, the \/ affects how some things work. It gives us logging, tho
$ procmail scratch/moo.rc <<HERE
XYZ exists
ABC exists, too
# Let's hope this never ends up in somebody's real mailbox :-)
HERE
procmail: [31760] Wed Apr 29 20:45:50 1998
procmail: Assigning "MATCH="
*procmail: Matched "XYZ"
procmail: Match on "^\/(ABC|XYZ)"
procmail: Locking "moo.out.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=moo.out"
procmail: Opening "moo.out"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "moo.out.lock"
Folder: moo.out 89
So yes, your doubts were well-founded. You need to put those in two
separate recipes and spell out the exact conditions for the case where
XYZ comes before ABC.
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