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Package: procmail
Version: 3.22-16
Severity: normal
The manpage suggests that -m turns procmail into a general-purpose
filter. Thus, the following rather surprises me:
piper:~> cat cat
:0 f
|/bin/cat
piper:~> echo test | procmail -m VERBOSE=yes cat | wc -l
procmail: [23799] Wed May 23 00:53:22 2007
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=."
procmail: Rcfile: "cat"
procmail: Executing "/bin/cat"
Folder: **Bounced**
0
If I leave the rcfile empty, I get $?=73. Removing the f flag makes
no real difference:
piper:~> echo test | procmail -m VERBOSE=yes cat | wc -l
procmail: [23791] Wed May 23 00:53:06 2007
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=."
procmail: Rcfile: "cat"
procmail: Executing "/bin/cat"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/bin/cat"
Folder: /bin/cat
0
Either the software is buggy or the documentation off. I suspect
both. :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages procmail depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages procmail recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.4.0-3 A high-performance mail transport
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On Wed, 23 May 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: procmail
> Version: 3.22-16
> Severity: normal
>
> The manpage suggests that -m turns procmail into a general-purpose
> filter. [...]
No, it does not. You are thinking about a filter in the *Unix* sense
(i.e. a program which takes data from stdin, outputs to stdout, and
does some processing in between).
The manpage says "mail filter". A "mail filter" is a program which
takes email as input and decides what to do with it: either it's delivered
to a certain mail folder, or it's redirected somewhere, or even it
might disappear.
The manual might have room for improvement, but it should not be misread.
Option -m is mostly useful if you want to create filtering rules for email
in a way which does not interfere with normal email processing as stated
in your .procmailrc file.
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