in message
<004001c1aa08$9784af00$fb080142(_at_)cpe6618251(_dot_)il(_dot_)sprintbbd(_dot_)net>,
wrote David W. Tamkin thusly...
parv_(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com asked,
| is the variable $PMDIR obsolete as i don't see it in procmail(1)
| or in procmailrc(5)?
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 ...
ah! now that explains everything (including the reply from Pollywog)
... that doesn't even give the chance to PMDIR to become obsolete.
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.
i suppose you don't have "ls" aliased to "/bin/ls -A".
my $HOME had been cluttered worse than a dumpster. software which
allow "non-default" locations for configuration, etc. files, i like
to prefer. things have been under control, more or less, now.
$HOME is now like a half empty trash can.
- parv
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