[Esa-l]suggestion for making html-trap.procmail easier to read

[John D. Hardin]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Alois Treindl wrote:

> The sanitizer filter html-trap.procmail contains several lengthy
> perl scripts which are directly imbedded in the filter. This makes
> the filter hard to read, and whenever an error occurs with one of
> the script, procmail dumps the complete perl script into
> procmail.log, which makes very little sense.
> 
> It would be better to move each of these perl filters into a
> separate file, and call it as a secondary filter.

I'm aware of that. The original version was a great deal smaller, and
I'm a little reluctant to break it up because at the moment it is
self-contained.

However, as you see, there are definite limits to how far this model
can be taken, and definite drawbacks (e.g. it's pretty much write-only
code... :)

I'm working on a version that's a standalone perl script, with lots of
feature enhancements, but I'm beginning to wonder if a higher priority
would be to split the script out of the procmail file for 1.x

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