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Subject:Re: [maildropl] Setting environment variable in maildrop to "" deletes it?Actions...
From:Matthias Andree (ma+c@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date:Nov 17, 2003 6:29:46 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

Courier User <cour@asfast.net> writes:

Even though maildrop appears to treat these two cases identically, child processes invoked via xfilter and other means could have problems with this. This happens because environment variables are inherited by child processes, which in the general case cannot be counted on to look at these two instances as being equivalent ... and in quite a few common cases, they do not. ... Thoughts?

Check out the env(1) command.

Untested:

xfilter 'env VARIABLE= /usr/local/bin/your-command'

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