[ingo] Remove "stop" flag from Procmail?

Samuel Wolf samuel at sheepflock.de
Mon Feb 1 20:57:41 UTC 2016


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.

>
>>> 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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