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2001-03-29 19:24:48
I have figured out more information about my problem.  It appears as if the
messages only get concatanated together if I don't read the messages as they
come in individually.  If two or more mails get sent to a pine folder(file)
it combines them.  So the problem isn't locking the file, it appears as if
pine does something to the message and makes it so that the next message
that gets sent by procmail is sent correctly as another message.  The weird
thing though is that I have a

:0c:
backup

at the top of my .procmailrc file and when it copies the mail to the backup
file/folder they are seperated correctly.  Anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks,

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul L. Peltz, Jr." <peltz(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
To: <procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Help for a new user


I have set up my procmail to forward incoming mail to my folders so I can
read them with pine.  This has worked so far as long as the messages don't
come in at the same time.  A lot of times they do for me though, so I
enabled the option to use a lock file.  It doesn't seem as if this is
working though because whenever it gets forwarded to the folder multiple
mails show up as one big mail concatanated together.  Any help on this
would
be great.  I am including the verbose output from procmails log along with
my .procmailrc and .forward file for review.  According to the procmail
output it is successfully creating a lockfile and moving on to the next
message to forward to the folder.  But it still shows up in my folder as
one
message.  I'll include an example of this at the end of the mail for your
review.  I apologize for the length of the message but I wanted to make
sure
that I included everything.  Also I am using procmail v3.13.1.  Thanks in
advance for any help anyone can offer.


Verbose output from procmail:

procmail: [28282] Tue Mar 27 13:52:23 2001
procmail: Locking "backup.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=backup"
procmail: Opening "backup"
procmail: Unlocking "backup.lock"
procmail: No match on "^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclhelp"
procmail: No match on "^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclreq"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*cs\-wizards"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*fr\-users"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*icl\-orders"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*jd\-orders"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*faxnotify"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*faxadm"
procmail: No match on "^(FROM|TO).*root\@"
procmail: No match on "^(FROM|TO).*postmaster\@"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*labstaff"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*iclsys"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*klinux"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*net\-events"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*testreq"
procmail: Match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*peltz"
procmail: Locking "testreq.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=testreq"
procmail: Opening "testreq"
procmail: Unlocking "testreq.lock"
From peltz(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu  Tue Mar 27 13:52:23 2001
  Folder: testreq
1131
procmail: Notified comsat: "peltz(_at_)3415:/pelt/homes/peltz/mail/testreq"
procmail: [28291] Tue Mar 27 13:52:28 2001
procmail: Locking "backup.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=backup"
procmail: Opening "backup"
procmail: Unlocking "backup.lock"
procmail: No match on "^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclhelp"
procmail: No match on "^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclreq"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*cs\-wizards"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*fr\-users"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*icl\-orders"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*jd\-orders"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*faxnotify"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*faxadm"
procmail: No match on "^(FROM|TO).*root\@"
procmail: No match on "^(FROM|TO).*postmaster\@"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*labstaff"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*iclsys"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*klinux"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*net\-events"
procmail: No match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*testreq"
procmail: Match on

"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):
(.*[^a-zA-Z])?).*peltz"
procmail: Locking "testreq.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=testreq"
procmail: Opening "testreq"
procmail: Unlocking "testreq.lock"
From peltz(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu  Tue Mar 27 13:52:28 2001
  Folder: testreq
1131
procmail: Notified comsat: "peltz(_at_)4546:/pelt/homes/peltz/mail/testreq"

My .procmailrc file:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/peltz
#LOCKEXT=$HOME/mail/temp.lock
VERBOSE=on


:0c:
backup

:0:iclhelp.lock
* ^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclhelp
iclhelp

:0:iclhelp.lock
* ^(TO|FROM|CC).*iclreq
iclhelp

:0:
* ^TO.*cs\-wizards
wizards

:0:
* ^TO.*fr\-users
fr-users

:0:
* ^TO.*icl\-orders
orders

:0:
* ^TO.*jd\-orders
orders

:0:
* ^TO.*faxnotify
faxes

:0:
* ^TO.*faxadm
faxes

:0:
* ^(FROM|TO).*root\@
root

:0:
* ^(FROM|TO).*postmaster\@
root

:0:
* ^TO.*labstaff
labstaff

:0:
* ^TO.*iclsys
iclsys

:0:
* ^TO.*klinux
klinux

:0:
* ^TO.*net\-events
net-events

:0:
* ^TO.*testreq
testreq

:0:
* ^TO.*peltz
testreq

:0:
* ^TO.*procmail
procmail

And my .forward file:

"|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/local/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75
#peltz"

An example concatanated message:



/*****************************************************************/
Paul L. Peltz, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Computer Science Dept. - ICL
Computer Operations/System Programmer
865-974-1075
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~peltz/
/*****************************************************************/

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/*****************************************************************/
Paul L. Peltz, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Computer Science Dept. - ICL
Computer Operations/System Programmer
865-974-1075
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~peltz/
/*****************************************************************/



Thanks,

Paul

/*******************************************************************/
Paul L Peltz, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Computer Science Dept. - ICL
Computer Operations/System Programmer
865-974-1075
/*******************************************************************/

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