Is it possible to use a lock file while using Dmail? I originally did it
and it gave me errors. Do I need to use a lock file? I converted all of my
mailboxes and INBOX to mbx format from unix format?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff(_at_)stikman(_dot_)com)
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Behalf Of S.Toms
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:39 PM
To: Procmail
Subject: Re: Recipe Problem
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Stan Ryckman wrote:
sr> At 10:42 PM 8/31/99 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
sr> >I seem to be having a problem with my recipe file. I just added three
new
sr> >recipes, and now it appears all of my messages are being moved into my
sr> >Mailing Lists folder. The three that I just added are the last three.
sr> >Everything worked fine before I added those, so I imagine the problem
is
sr> >there. The three with Proftpd is what I am talking about.
sr>
sr> [snip]
sr>
sr> >:0
sr> >* ^Subject:.*[ProFTPD]
sr> >| $DROP/'Mailing Lists'
sr>
sr> In this recipe (and one other) you need to change [ to \[
sr> What you've written matches any subject containing any
sr> of the letters p,r,o,f,t, or d (upper or lower case).
sr> That probably appears to catch all of your mail!
sr>
sr> It will be OK, but not necessary, to also escape the ] as well;
sr> that character is special only when closing the [] pair.
sr>
You will also want to put a lock on your recipes, without a lock, you
could end up with jumbled messages or just plain messed up messages.
:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[ProFTPD]
| $DROP/'Mailing Lists'
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