Philip wrote,
| Your description of raw mode is not quite accurate.
Apparently it was far off the mark. Thank you for the straight dope.
| The 'r' flag tells procmail to _not_ do four things:
|
| 1) put a '>' before any line in the body that starts with "From "
| 2) add a single newline to the end if it doesn't end in two newlines
| 3) force an access time earlier than the modification time
| 4) if configured with custom message delimiters (ala MMDF)
| write those out before and after the message itself
So the absence of `r' never makes procmail add a From_ line if there isn't
one already there, even for delivery to an mbox?
| By default, procmail does all of those when writing to an mbox-style
| folder. When writing to other folder styles or to a pipe, procmail
| automatically disables some of those. In particular, when writing to a...
|
| pipe, only do (2)
| MH folder, only do (2)
| directory folder, only do (2)
| maildir, do none of them
|
| So yes, the 'r' flag has no effect when writing to a maildir.
What happens when procmail writes to a filter or does a variable capture?
Are all four left undone?
| ... it would be nice to have a flag (R? F?) that would disable it for
| other cases.
| For now you have to use the
| formail -b -I"From "
| bit. (The -b flag tells formail to not escape embeded "From " lines.)
| Note that whether the message starts with a leading "From " line is yet
| another point to consider. The message being processed by procmail will
| initially have such a line if
| a) the message fed to procmail had one, OR
| b) procmail was invoked with the -f flag, OR
| c) procmail is in delivery mode (invoked with the -d flag, the -z flag,
| or via a name that doesn't start with procmail)
So, once procmail opens an rcfile for a message with no From_ line, it
never automatically adds one for delivery, even to an mbox?
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