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Re: Ways to add new features

2005-11-14 17:53:02

Gary> I really hate how long it takes for formail -s procmail to run on
Gary> a large mailbox.  I've posted separately, based upon some
Gary> experiments a potential speedup of 10x, when formail can avoid
Gary> creating a new process.  I suggested that formail and procmail can
Gary> be combined, and they would differ in function based upon the
Gary> program name when they're called.

Isn't that a red herring?  You'd still need to create a new process
even if it were the same program.

I'd have nothing against adding syntax sugar to procmail to do what
formail already does, but I think there would still be vaule in a
separate formail program.

-- 
A true pessimist won't be discouraged by a little success.

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