Hi all,
I've discovered that biff will not work when formail (or any other
program such as cat) is used to send the mail to a file. For example,
:0:
* ^(Apparently-)?(To:|Cc:).*mjm
$DEFAULT
will send mail to the $DEFAULT mailbox, and create a log entry
procmail: Notified comsat: "mjm(_at_)67865-/var/mail/mjm"
However, if the following is used
:0:
* ^(Apparently-)?(To:|Cc:).*mjm
| $FORMAIL -A"X-Sorted: Default Mail" >> $DEFAULT
biff will notify the terminal with the first message in the default mail
folder (/var/mail/$USER, in this case), not using any offset or anything.
It creates the following Log entry:
procmail: Notified comsat: "mjm(_at_)- $FORMAIL -A"X-Sorted: Default"
$DEFAULT"
Notice how the offset and the mailbox location are not printed. Is there
any way to get around this while still using formail process the mail?
Thanks,
Mark Miller
mjm(_at_)bnet(_dot_)org