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Re: default delivery (was Mail Dirs)

2002-02-08 09:41:19
Philip explained to Trevor about locking on implicit delivery to $DEFAULT
when procmail falls off the end of /etc/procmailrc,

| That comment is inaccurate in two ways:
| 1) if DEFAULT is a maildir, MH, 'directory' folder or '|', then procmail
|    won't use a locallockfile, and

It shouldn't if DEFAULT is /dev/null either.

| 2) it doesn't use or conflict with the LOCKFILE variable: procmail can
|    hold two separate lockfiles, one using LOCKFILE and one using a
|    locallockfile on a recipe or implicity when delivering to $DEFAULT.

It's inaccurate in three ways:

3) While there is implicit delivery to $DEFAULT when procmail falls off the
end of ~/.procmailrc or an rcfile named on the command line (or a SWITCHRC
on the same level), that isn't the case for the end of /etc/procmailrc.  At
the end of /etc/procmailrc, procmail moves to the recipient's personal
rcfile (named $HOME/.procmailrc unless you took the unusual step of changing
the source code).  If that file is nonexistent or unusable, only then would
procmail do default delivery after finishing /etc/procmailrc.



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