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Re: Generating the leading "From "

1997-06-12 21:47:00
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dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com (David W. Tamkin) wrote:
:wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com wrote about his mail on patriot.net,
:While procmail is waiting for its standard second between "F" and "rom",
:something holds it up, and it dies without finishing.  Later another piece
:arrives for the same folder, decides the lockfile is stale, steals the lock,
:and writes away: then "F"+"From " = "FFrom ".

I have also seen the same symptom simply because I didn't have a lock
where I needed one.  Added the lock, and poof! the problem was gone.

Signatures Follow. (tm)

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