On Jun 26, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
Great, so the new procmail still has to parse OLD procmail scripts.
'cept that regexp lines differ.
That isn't going to SIMPLIFY anything ...
It's gonna simplify comprehension.
"Mastering Regular Expressions" is a good read.
It points out that there are MANY different kinds of RegExps out there.
ProcMail has many "False Friends" built in to it that does NOT make a
SysAdmin's job easier.
- it's going the make the code that much more complicated for no good
reason.
It's going to make some of it more complex, and other parts simpler.
And there is a very good reason.
Not an option all users have.
Normal user's don't use Procmail.
Admins and wannabes do.
Currently, they're about the only ones who can.
Aloha mai Nai`a!
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