Hello,
I want to source procmail rules that someone else wrote. They use a
variable for the action of each rule. It is intended that each variable be
set to a mailbox name. However, I use mbx mailboxes with the University of
Washington imap server. So, to deliver my mail the rules need to pipe to
the dmail program to deliver. ie:
:0
* ^Subject:.*Test
| /usr/local/bin/dmail +Test
I want to set a variable with the action. I expected it to be something
like this:
TEST_MAIL="| /usr/local/bin/dmail +Test"
However, procmail always interprets this as a mailbox name and delivers mail
to the mailbox "|". I have tried many different ways of quoting and
escaping character but procmail always interprets the contents of the
variable as a mailbox to deliver to.
Is there a way to assign a variable so that procmail will pipe to the dmail
program?
I am trying to avoid editing the original procmail rules. I want to be able
to source the authors original rules so I always have them uptodate. It
would also help if I could assign $DEFAULT in the same way.
Thank you
-Brian Young
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