Lee Hoffner asked,
> When I set a variable in a recipe
> SPAMMER=`formail -rzx "To:"`
[Technically that's not a recipe, but OK, if you set a variable in your
procmail rcfile ...]
> is SPAMMER now a shell variable?
No, because there's no shell around. It's a procmail rcfile variable.
However, when you say this ...
> I'm trying to write a PERL script for procmail to invoke and don't
> know whether I could have that script access the value of $SPAMMER as
> set by the procmail recipe.
... I think that what you're really asking is whether the variable will
be exported into the environment. The answer to that is yes, procmail
exports all variables, so perl should know the value. Of course, if
perl changes or unsets it, procmail won't know.
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