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Re: error while writing to head?

2001-04-17 10:24:56
At 18:32 2001-04-17 +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand did say:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:05:26AM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> |     procmail: Executing "head,-87"

> Head, by its purpose, doesn't read in the entire input but rather exits once
> it has found the required number of lines.  Since procmail can't write the
> entire text to head, procmail finds a write error.

Yes but how come the error only happens for a small minority of messages
on a 150 message mailbox processed with "formail -s procmail < mbox"?

Lemme guess, only a small minority of them have more than 87 lines?

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