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binary garbage logged with some formail operations

2004-05-16 11:54:45
Last time I used procmail is at least 5 years ago, so my approach to this is 
like 
a Newbie, I went to procmail.org and to some links from there and worked my way 
thru some tutorials and examples, among them the very useful Quick Start at 
Infinite Ink, one of the best primers to a complex program I've ever seen. All 
of 
what I tried worked with the first try, but there's something which produces 
weird 
results.

It's an example from man procmailex:
:0 fhw
| formail -k -X From: -X Subject:

I do get the desired result, but I also get a line of binary garbage logged to 
procmail.log (see below, it's always the same). There doesn't seem to be a 
difference with locking. (It's not clear to me, anyway, although I read some 
sentences about it, when I need locking and when I don't.) When I use other 
formail commands, like "formail -I" it works without that additional "benefit".
This is procmail 3.15.1 on Suse Linux 9.0.

It also seems that I have to use a final action which files to a folder when I 
want to get the mail delivered after using formail. This is not the case with 
other operations, including piping to other programs, they do get delivered to 
the 
default mailbox. I suppose I overlooked the explanation in one of the FAQs?

procmail: [15393] Sun May 16 15:42:54 2004
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/-removed-"
procmail: Executing "formail,-k,-X,From:,-X,Subject:"
procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*Test"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=default"
procmail: Opening "default"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
 \xD5[  \xA0\ 豐] \xF3^ \xCE\x94_ \xD5_`\x90\xEA}a \xB7?b\x90\xCC]c 
\x99d\x90\xAE=e\x90\xB5f\x90\x90g\x90\x97\xE8g\x90r\xFDh\x90y\xC8i\x90T\xDDj\x90[\xA8k
 q\xC6l\x90=\x88m
  Folder: default                              650
procmail: Notified comsat: "-removed-"


Kai

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Kai Sch\xE4tzl, Berlin, Germany



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