Re: Duplicate emails

Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:59:46 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.procmail
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* Christopher P. Lindsey wrote on Thu, 23 Oct 2014, at 09:22 (-0500):

> On Oct 22, LuKreme wrote:
>
> > :0c
> > /backups/imap.backups
> >
> > If that fails, the duplicate message falls through.
> >
> > Is there anyway to trap that so that a duplicate is not
> > generated if the write of the copy fails?
>
> You could add an error-check right below it:
>
>    :0e
>    /dev/null

This is logically useless.  It is also a dangerous "error-check"
because there is no message backup *and* processing the rcfile
continues which may cause further errors.  Do not do it this way.

Regards,
Mathias

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