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Re: Mailbox is getting scrambled.

2002-01-22 13:25:42
At 13:06 2002-01-22 -0700, Mark Simpson wrote:
I'm using the following procmail receipe and my mailbox is getting scrambled
if more than one message arrives at once.

USE FILE LOCKING

From my understanding, I can't lock any formail receipes, so the basic
delivery method is it drops out at the end and then delivers the message.

According to the manual, it says the mailbox is locked at this happens.

HUH? _formail_ isn't depositing messages into mailboxes. Where are you reading this?


LOCK THIS RECIPE

:0 c
/var/mail/backup


LOCK THIS RECIPE (probably requires a manually specified lockfile name)

:0 ic
| cd /var/mail/backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,100d`


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