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Re: EOF and future recipes

2010-06-07 04:12:26
Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 07:46 2010-06-07 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Is there a way for the procmailrc file to signal an end to the list of
recipes even though there may still be incomplete or partial recipes
below the EOF i.e.

It's a good idea not to have incomplete (i.e. syntactically broken)
recipes in a live config.

Perhaps you could explain what you're trying to accomplish - why would
you have incomplete recipes in a live config?  Is it that you really
wish to force a premature abort (and if so, why have the other recipes
anyway?)

I receive a LARGE number of emails(Approx 1500 per month) that are
sorted into their different folders and the really important ones stay
in my Inbox to be looked at first.

I would therefore like to having a working procmailrc file that I can
periodically add to. It is very possible that I remember part of a
future recipe but nothing more. I would therefore add the details I can
remember into the procmail file as part of a future recipe and know that
Procmail will not process the text I have jotted down because there was
and EOF before it.

As Olivier stated earlier I could just comment them out but procmail
will still read the file to the end. Apart from this there are currently
 over 5 A4 pages of recipes that need completing when the relevant email
arrives i.e. 5 pg to be commented out, line by line!

As that is an awful lot of #'s, I thought there might be an EOF command
that I could put into the procmailrc file to tell procmail that it
should ignore any text/cmd after the EOF command.

Unfortunately using the 'HOST=' command on a separate line would stop
Procmail from continuing to use the valid recipes that are OK before the
HOST cmd?

Regards
Hylton
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