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Re: newbie question

1999-09-02 14:32:28
Chris,

To deliver to your inbox as if procmail hadn't processed the message at
all, simply use $DEFAULT as a destination. In procmailese:

   :0
   * <conditions that identify mail as friendly>
   $DEFAULT

You probably don't want to /dev/null mail until you have very solid junk
filters. It is truly amazing what friends and employers can send that
looks like junk to an untested filter. For instance, many folks try
to trash mail that doesn't conform to the appropriate RFCs for header
construction. Your message, for instance, is non-conformant. My filter
identified it as such, but didn't /dev/null it.

About your mailer -- it generates an illegal (non-RFC-822-compliant)
date line, viz:
   Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:17:18 -8
which has an invalid time-zone indication. -0800 is legit. -8 isn't.
The RFC explicitly requires four digits following a + or - sign for
indication of the zone offset.


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Rik Kabel          Old enough to be an adult              
rik(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com

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