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Re: flag lines

2003-07-04 13:31:35
That's got to be one of the best explanations about why Procmail works the way 
it does that I have yet read. If you can do more of the same, I'd encourage 
you to write a book: the present selection isn't approachable enough for 
amateurs like me.  :)

Thanks!

On Friday 04 July 2003 04:12 pm, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Back in the days when email filtering was much simpler and recipes with
more than one condition were rare, procmail syntax required a number on
the flag line for the number of conditions the recipe had, so that
procmail would know where the conditions ended and the next line was the
action.  If the recipe had an `A' or `a' flag, the default was zero;
otherwise, the default was one.  

[snip]

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