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Re: Procmail & Netscape/Mozilla - warning

1997-10-06 13:36:36
I had a similar situation with Pine just the other day. I opened pine 
and moved to the inbox just as a message came in. All of my mail is 
touched by procmail before I see it. Anyway, I never got the message, 
and have been unable to find it on the system anywhere. The only way 
I know it came in is from the familiar beep sound my machine makes 
when mail comes in. Also, since that time, I continually get reminded 
by pine to move my old mail folders back for a new month. This 
usually only occurs on the first of each month, but since the "fight" 
between pine and procmail, I get it each time I open Pine. 


From:          Mike de Laine <Mike(_at_)innosoft(_dot_)com>
Subject:       Procmail & Netscape/Mozilla - warning

For those using Netscape/mozilla to read mail files/folders directly
(rather than via IMAP)

Netscape/mozilla doesn't do any locking for file operations, so you can
loose messages if procmail is delivering some mail whilst Netscape is
performing some file/folder operations. (This is also a potential for
causing Mozilla to crash with a bus error. Netscape 4.0x seems much less
tolerant in this area than was V3.x).

Netscape's "answer" is to not use procmail and use the mail filtering
capability in Mozilla (which is rather limited in capability)...


    Mike.



Alan V. Shackelford, Propt.L.S
Computer Support Group
Rummel, Klepper & Kahl LLP
Baltimore, Maryland

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