in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Sven Guckes thusly... > > * parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-19 19:39]: > > wrote Sven Guckes thusly... ... > > > :0 > > > * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > IN.MUTT > > > > > > :0 > > > * ^TOmutt(-dev|-users)?@.*(cs.hmc.edu|mutt.org|yahoogroups.com) > > > IN.MUTT > > > > all these can be easily combined as one OR'd recipe (assuming mbox)...
...the omitted context showed use of scoring in one recipe... > i know, i know - but this just makes it all even more > complicated. having more than one recipe acting on single conditions delivering to the only and same folder, as you had posted, is simpler (than having one recipe simply OR'd to deliver to one folder)? then of course words like "simple", "easy", "complex" are relative terms. > > ..and, from procmailsc(5)... > > MISCELLANEOUS > > As soon as `plus infinity' (2147483647) is reached, any > > subsequent weighted conditions will simply be skipped > > As soon as `minus infinity' (-2147483647) is reached, the > > condition will be considered as `no match' and the recipe > > will terminate early. > > I'm sure everyone understands this. but does anyone find this an > elegant solution? i mean - seriously? ;-) elegant? it's procmail. i take it you aren't much of a fan of procmail or its scoring. if you don't like infinities, you can use simpler numbers like 1^0 w/ some trade offs; as i said earlier, see various procmail resources for details. perhaps i should list them this time... http://www.procmail.org/ http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/ http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/procmailrc.0 http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/procmailsc.0 http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/procmailex.0 http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/mini-faq.html http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/ as far as i am concerned, scoring made my life easier to deal w/ procmail recipes. i find procmail's scoring/conditions combining to be weak as there are some AND, OR, NOT operations can't be done in single recipe for the same action sometimes ... which, for me, would have been simpler & better than having two or three recipes. - parv --
