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Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] filtering support for inc


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] filtering support for inc
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:09:59 +0100

Hi Ken,

> > As for inc being silent, «inc -forma ''» almost achieves that apart
> > from the annoying, noisy, non-Unix, "Incorporating new mail into
> > inbox...\n\n".
>
> Well, there IS also >/dev/null, this being Unix and all :-)

Yes, this is true.  :-)  But both should really be given because the
-forma stops lots of unnecessary byte-code work to format emails, and
the /dev/null is needed to mop up the "inc here" noise.  So it seems a
shame to need the latter.

> I think we are pretty consistent that errors are printed to stderr.

Yep.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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