On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Philip Guenther wrote:
pg> "S.Toms" <tomas(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com> writes:
pg> >
pg> >:0f
pg> >| formail +1 -ds formail -bfi "Reply-To: blah(_at_)blah(_dot_)com" >>
mailfolder
pg> >
pg> > is there a better way?
pg>
pg> You almost certainly don't want the 'f' flag on that recipe. It'll cause
pg> an empty message to be processed by the rest of your rcfile. You should
pg> instead use the 'w' flag to catch the return code of the formail command.
pg> As for making this nicer, you can give formail header alteration flags
pg> (-i, -a, etc) when splitting and they will be applied to each message
pg> that is split out.
pg>
pg> :0 w:
pg> | formail +1 -bfi "Reply-To: blah(_at_)blah(_dot_)com" -ds >> mailfolder
pg>
Ahh, didn't know that could be done like that, I saw the xample in the
formail manpage with the -a but didn't think it applied to -i and
others. Thanks for the tip, I can see a couple other places I might beable
to use somethng similar to that.
pg> The second colon tells procmail to put a locallockfile on the file
pg> specified after the >> in the action.
pg>
Good point, I missed that one :/
pg>
pg> Philip Guenther
pg>
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