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Re: Ways to add new features

2005-11-14 20:23:03

Gary> formail would still be separate, but simply an alias (hard link)
Gary> to procmail.  This way formail can invoke procmail without fork(),
Gary> and likewise procmail can evalue `formail ...` without creating a
Gary> new process.

I think that's really ugly and fragile, though.  And that goes for the
similar shell "feature" too.  If the formail functionality is added
to procmail, it should have its own syntax, rather than look like an
external program invocation.

my $0.02

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