[ingo] Remove "stop" flag from Procmail?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Samuel Wolf <samuel at sheepflock.de>:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Samuel Wolf <samuel at sheepflock.de>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like some feedback from Procmail users.
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, if you disable the stop flag, message are being  
>>>> copied due to the "c" flag. The idea probably was to apply  
>>>> several rules in a row, but this not what happens with "c".
>>>
>>> We use this, for example to deliver a mail to "folder1" with "To"  
>>> and to "folder2" with "Cc".
>>
>> But the message is effectively duplicated then, no? If desired,  
>> this would still be a non-advertised side-effect.
>
> Yes the message is duplicated in this case.

Since we don't really support copying messages with any email filters,  
and this is just a side-effect of an incorrect implementation, we  
would have to drop this "feature".

>>>> Actuall I can't think of any of the filter actions supported by  
>>>> Procmail that would make sense of being combined though. This is  
>>>> different from other filter backends where you can mark messages  
>>>> with a flag *and* deliver them into some folder for example.
>>>> I'm considering to remove that flag completely for Procmail and  
>>>> keep the default behavior for all recipes, i.e. stopping the  
>>>> execution as soon as a message is delivered/stored anywhere. But  
>>>> I would appreciate some input from people who actually use  
>>>> Procmail first, I don't.
>>>>
>>>> Jan.
>>>>
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