11.4.2.2. Flags
11.4.2.2. Flags Flags are essential to determine how or if a recipe's conditions are compared to a message. The following flags are commonly used: A - Specifies that this recipe is only used if the recipe without an A or a flag also matched this message. a - Specifies that this recipe is only used if the recipe with an A or a flag also matched this message and was successfully completed. B - Parses the body of the message and looks for matching conditions. b - Uses the body in any resulting action, such as writing the message to a file or forwarding it. This is the default behavior. c - Generates a carbon copy of the email. This is useful with delivering recipes, since the required action can be performed on the message and a copy of the message can continue being processed in the rc files. D - Makes the egrep comparison case-sensitive. By default, the comparison process is not case-sensitive. E - While similar to the A flag, the conditions in the recipe are only compared to the message if the immediately preceding the recipe without an E flag did not match. This is comparable to an else action. e - The recipe is compared to the message only if the action specified in the immediately preceding recipe fails. f - Uses the pipe as a filter. H - Parses the header of the message and looks for matching conditions. This occurs by default. h - Uses the header in a resulting action. This is the default behavior. w - Tells Procmail to wait for the specified filter or program to finish, and reports whether or not it was successful before considering the message filtered. W - Is identical to w except that "Program failure" messages are suppressed. For a detailed list of additional flags, refer to the procmailrc man page.