mikk0022(_at_)maroon(_dot_)tc(_dot_)umn(_dot_)edu writes:
Is there any way to get procmail's builtin MH folder handling to
use the unseen-sequence mh-profile entry?
No.
To use unseen-sequence, I have been piping messages through the mh
program rcvstore, but then I have to worry about locking, which is
a bit of a hassle -- I just spent about 15 minutes tracking down
an "extraneous locallockfile ignored" error...
If this functionality does not exist, does it belong in procmail?
MH does no locking of either the context file (where private sequences
are stored) or the .mh_sequences files (where public sequences are
stored). Thus, the only way to avoid corrupting one of those file
would be to wrap all the MH commands with wrappers that lock the
involved files. Until and unless that is done, updating the 'unseen'
sequence for asynchronously delivered mail is a recipe for losing *all*
your sequences.
Philip Guenther