From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 12 21:15:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE3037B40F for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-004dcwashP074.dialsprint.net [206.133.21.162]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01180; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 64A2E50CF1; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:16:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:16:33 -0400 From: parv To: Andrew Edelstein Cc: procmail-users@procmail.org, f-q Subject: Re: problem w/ keeping only one out of many copies via procmail Message-ID: <20011013001633.A36464@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Edelstein , procmail-users@procmail.org, f-q References: <20011012230726.A27777@moo.holy.cow> <20011012210220.D7020@pure-chaos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011012210220.D7020@pure-chaos.com>; from andrew@pure-chaos.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:02:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Oct 13 00:02 -0400, sent by Andrew Edelstein > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:07:26PM -0400, parv wrote: > > problem is that i can't seem to get only one copy of mail > > instead of all the ones that i can potentially get. here is > > the receipe from procmail faq/man page/etc... > > > > :0 Whc: .msgid-lock > > | formail -D 32768 .msgid-cache > > > > #:0 a: > > #.extra-copy > > > > > > ...intially, i was giddy whenever i would see messages only in the > > .extra-copy but only one copy w/ same message-id in any/all other ... > > Uhm, that would be because you're no longer putting the extra copy generaged > by the c flag on the first recipe in the .extra-coppy folder defined by teh > second. Comment out the second recipe and the extra copy goes right on through > to the rest of your .procmailrc. You want to take that c flag off as well. > oh crap. i should have read procmailex again before sending my last long message. mea culpa. where procmailex gives me the receipe to save extra copy, before that it also gives the no-copy alternative as you have suggested, andrew. i did read procmailrc, the 'c' option does says that it would create a copy. obviously i missed it. i am quite red as i right this. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message