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From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: -bugs mail doesn't get filtered anymore by my procmailrc
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, jack wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Tom wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > > on the "From " header, which is always the first header line in an
> > 
> >   From: occurs after 5 or 6 Received headers, a Message-Id header, and a
> > Date header.  Not exactly at the beginning.
> 
> In the `raw' mail file, which procmail deals with, "From " /is/ the first
> line. "From:" is latter.                                ^
>            ^

  Sorry, I haven't used bezerk format mailboxes in years.

  From_ isn't really a header, but a mailbox separator.  It seems bizzare
to filter on a separator, but again procmail is a very bizare filter.

Tom