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Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?

2013-02-17 15:16:36

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<20130216223055(_dot_)9B6AF360A03(_at_)charybdis(_dot_)ellipsis(_dot_)cx>, 
Joel Uckelman <uckelman(_at_)nomic(_dot_)net> wrote:

Thus spake "Ronald F. Guilmette":

For example, I've had this spam-filing recipe in my .procmailrc for ages:

:0w: Mail/sp/$LOCKEXT
* ^X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter
| /usr/libexec/nmh/rcvstore +sp


Can you help me to understand the first line of that?

Obviously, based on what I already posted, I _do_ understand the initial
":0" part of that, and I just looked man the procmailrc man page and now
I have learned about the 'w" part.  But what's that other colon doing in
there?  And what is the significance of "Mail/sp/$LOCKEXT" ?

The second colon tells procmail to use a lockfile for this recipe, and
the path after that is the lockfile name. Messages can come in any
time; the lockfile ensures that two runs of rcvstore don't step on each
other's toes.

The man page for procmailrc(5) is how I learned about this in the first
place.


Thank you.  This has all been distinctly enlightening.


Regards,
rfg

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