A question about procmailrc

[John Summerfied]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>Tony Dietrich wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Try switching to the sh shell
>>>
>>>Something is tickling my memory about input line limits with bash. 
>>>Can't catch the memory, but if bash is the problem, try the shell
>>>procmail recommend.
>>
>>[summer at bilby ~]$ ls -l /bin/sh
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root 4 Nov 26 12:31 /bin/sh -> bash
>>[summer at bilby ~]$
>>
>>I don't see how that will make a difference.
>>
>>
> 
> Believe it or not, Bash uses a different set of defaults
> when invoked as sh. For example, from man bash:
> 
> When invoked as sh, bash enters posix mode after the startup files
> are read.

Oh, I know that. It turns off extensions, it does not make it more lenient.


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