[H-GEN] Procmail testing

[Christopher Biggs]

Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at panix.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>    -| cd backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,250d`
>    +| cd backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,2500d`
>
> I'm *really* annoyed I didn't notice how low that default was.  

Well, 250 messages is a couple of hours for me, combined with "tail -f
.maildata/LOG" and intensive scrutiny of the procmail log output, it's
good enough for simple smoke testing.  (ah, I remember the days when
it was "1,50d" for a couple of days' grace).

You /do/ turn on logging-to-file when testing rules, right?
Procmail's default is to send delivery errors to the user by e-mail,
which is obviously (in hindsight!) bogus if you've just hosed your
.procmailrc.

If testing unattended, I generally warp to a higher paranoia-factor.

--cjb