[ingo] Remove "stop" flag from Procmail?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Feb 1 08:25:12 UTC 2016


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.

>> 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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