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varname=| construct broken?

2004-02-20 13:47:13

I can't get this to work at all.  I've tried procmail 3.15.2 on Solaris 8
and procmail 3.22 on Redhat 8, same results on both.

My recipe file:
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VERBOSE=on

:0h
FROM=| formail -xFrom:
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Sample message file:
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From: Joe
Subject: test

bye
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When you run procmail <message-file FROM is null.
procmail: [844] Thu Feb 19 13:18:53 2004
procmail: Executing "formail,-xFrom:"
procmail: [844] Thu Feb 19 13:18:53 2004
procmail: Assigning "FROM="   <=========================WHY BLANK???
procmail: Locking "/var/mail/ian.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/ian"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/ian"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/ian.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "ian(_at_)21458:/var/mail/ian"
 Subject: test
  Folder: /var/mail/ian                             30


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