At 00:06 2002-05-07 +0200, Axel Heinrici did say:
It is me again. For some reason procmail produces corrupted mboxes.
Yea, that sort of happens when the author of the script ignores the need to
LOCK mailboxes. Procmail does what you tell it to, and in this case,
you're saying "write to this file, whenever, I don't care".
From 'man procmailrc':
By using any number of recipes you can presort your mail extremely
straightforward into several mailfolders. Bear in mind though
that the mail can arrive concurrently in these mailfolders (if
several procmail programs happen to run at the same time, not
unlikely if a lot of mail arrives). To make sure this does not
result in a mess, proper use of lockfiles is highly recommended.
and:
Local lockfile
If you put a second (trailing) ':' on the first recipe line, then
procmail will use a locallockfile (for this recipe only). You can
optionally specify the locallockfile to use; if you don't however,
procmail will use the destination filename (or the filename fol-
lowing the first '>>') and will append $LOCKEXT to it.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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