parv_(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com asked,
| is the variable $PMDIR obsolete as i don't see it in procmail(1)
| or in procmailrc(5)? i am using v3.22 2001/09/10. i think i had
| seen it somewhere.
It was never a special variable; it's simply a common one many people use to
point to a directory where they keep their logfiles, INCLUDERCs, SWITCHRCs,
caches of Message-Ids, and such. It has never been mentioned in the man
pages because it has no special meaning to procmail, only to those people
who like to use it.
My impression is that it was popularized by Nancy McGough's getting-started
guide.
I don't use $PMDIR myself; I keep files like those in $MAILDIR or $HOME, and
they all have names beginning with a period so that they don't pop up in an
ls. I was doing it that way for years before I saw $PMDIR in a lot of
people's code and saw no reason to change.
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