no exit on delivering recipe

Hello,

  Not a member of this list so please include reply to sender.

  I am using procmail as mda with sendmail 8.9.1

  I have an account for handling system questions with a .procmailrc
in it which doesn't behave as documented.  The first recipe is a 
delivering recipe (as defined in procmailrc(5)) but execution of
the .procmailrc after that recipe is continues.  I expected that
execution should stop at that point.

  I know it isn't exiting at "Should exit here" because the
"! $USSG_LIST" is being executed and the test addresses *are*
receiving the mail.

  Is this a bug or behavior defined to be different when procmail
is used as the mda?

##################OUTPUT OF "procmail -v"

procmail v3.11pre7 1997/04/28 written and created by Stephen R. van den Berg
                                                        <srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl>

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        <procmail-request(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de>

Locking strategies:     dotlocking, fcntl(), lockf(), flock()
Default rcfile:         $HOME/.procmailrc
Your system mailbox:    /var/spool/mail/valid

#############OUTPUT OF "cat .procmailrc" (edited for privacy; names changed)

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail              #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log   #recommended
IGN_LIST="uucp listserv majordomo listproc" #for X-Ignore header
# production:
#USSG_LIST="validD(_at_)valid(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu,validC(_at_)valid(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu,validB(_at_)valid(_dot_)oit(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu,validA(_at_)valid(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu"
# testing:
USSG_LIST="valid(_at_)valid(_dot_)valid(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu, 
valid(_at_)valid(_dot_)valid(_dot_)umass(_dot_)edu"
ACK_MSG=/usr/users/ussg/.ACKmessage

:0:
   * ^From:.*validusername
   * ^From:.*valid.*lastnamex
   * ^From:.*valid.*lastnamey
   * ^From:.*valid.*lastnamez
   $DEFAULT
                                          #Should exit here on match!!
# Send ACK to users _not_ on this list.
# Add entries as needed.
:0c
   * ! ^From(_dot_)*ussg(_at_)(_dot_)*
   * ! ^From.*hd[0-9][0-9][0-9].*
   * ! ^From.*lastname6.*
   * ! ^From.*lastname5.*
   * ! ^From.*lastname4.*
   * ! ^From.*lastname3.*
   * ! ^From.*lastname2.*
   * ! ^From.*lastname1.*
   | /usr/local/bin/formail -cr -i "X-Ignore: $IGN_LIST" | \
      cat - $ACK_MSG | \
      /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t

# Forward message to all members of USSG and put it
# in $DEFAULT
:0c
   ! $USSG_LIST
      :0:
         $DEFAULT

--
    Peter deFriesse                             UNIX Systems Administration
    Email: peter(at)oit.umass.edu         [All standard disclaimers apply:]