From: guenther+procmail(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu
I'll admit that one sentence description of the 'f' flag is not the
clearest. If someone has a better suggestion for what to put as the
description there on the procmailrc(5) manpage, please email me.
Well, yes, and I'll admit that the word "filter" so confused me that
I didn't really understand the simplicity of the -f flag until
six months ago. That is, I went 5 or 6 years confused because of
the lame description in the man page and the (what I consider to be)
misnomer.
Why "misnomer"? Because "filter" implies to me exactly what
procmail itself does: saves some, redirects some, changes some.
Doesn't elm's mail management binary call itself "fliter"?
A "filter" is not my idea of what to call something that *changes*
something, or that facilitates its change by external programs
or actions. Rather, I would call such a thing a _function box_
or something (at least it still starts with "f").
A "function box" implies to me that you put in something at
one end, something black-artsy and not necessarily at the
discretion or control of the inputting agent happens inside,
and something changed comes out the other end of the "box."
And that, if I have now come to understand things correctly,
is what the -f flag allows.
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dman+noacks(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com
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