Procmail "Skipped"?

Hi,

I have setup a procmail filter to move messages delivered to the
mutt-users list to a mail box (~/Mail) mutt:

:O:
* ^TOmutt-user
mutt

The mail is delivered but there is an odd message in my procmail log:

procmail: Skipped "O:"
From andrew Wed Jul 11 12:12:26 2007
Subject: Re: Macro/Key Binding to call Fetchmail?
Folder: mutt

I suspect I have the syntax a little skewed?

Andrew


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Re: Procmail "Skipped"?

On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have setup a procmail filter to move messages delivered to the
> mutt-users list to a mail box (~/Mail) mutt:
>
>:O:
> * ^TOmutt-user
> mutt
>
> The mail is delivered but there is an odd message in my procmail log:
>
> procmail: Skipped "O:"
> From andrew Wed Jul 11 12:12:26 2007
> Subject: Re: Macro/Key Binding to call Fetchmail?
> Folder: mutt
>
> I suspect I have the syntax a little skewed?
>
Confirmed by a read of the manual:

Skipped: "x" Couldn't do anything with "x" in
the rcfile.(syntax error), ignoring it.

Andrew


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Re: Procmail "Skipped"?

On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
> On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have setup a procmail filter to move messages delivered to the
>> mutt-users list to a mail box (~/Mail) mutt:
>>
>>:O:
>> * ^TOmutt-user
>> mutt

Oh no!!! I have revealed myself as an idiot. Should be the number
zero, not uppercase letter O.

My blushes,

Andrew

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Re: Procmail "Skipped"?

andrew :
> On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
> > On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have setup a procmail filter to move messages delivered to the
> >> mutt-users list to a mail box (~/Mail) mutt:
> >>
> >>:O:
> >> * ^TOmutt-user
> >> mutt
>
> Oh no!!! I have revealed myself as an idiot. Should be the number
> zero, not uppercase letter O.

I was about to say ... :-)

Back at the dawn of time, displays showed zeros as capital O with a
slash through them. I often wonder why that died out.


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Re: Procmail "Skipped"?

andrew wrote:
> > On 2007-07-11, andrew wrote:
> >>:O:
> >> * ^TOmutt-user
> >> mutt

> Oh no!!! I have revealed myself as an idiot. Should be the number
> zero, not uppercase letter O.

Also, on some renditions of procmail, if I recall correctly, it is
safer to use ^TO_ rather than TO. It may not make a difference on
all the versions, but at least it should not hurt. Besides ^TO_ is
slightly better "visible" as a separate token.

All the best, Timo

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