OK, two people say lockfiles are required. The manual and Greg say not...
Also the manual suggests that I can deliver to MH folders simply by putting a
dot at the end of the folder name to deliver to, but Eberhard and Philip say
that I should shell out and use the nmh tools...
Anyone able to definitely quote on this one please? (running linux with recent
procmail distribution)
Also I am particularly interested in how the write is carried out, ie is it a
write to a temp file, then atomically linked into position, or is the file
opened for writing and contents piped in. Obviously if it is the latter then I
also need to correlate my lock files with my reader app (custom perl program,
doesn't use nmh as far as I am aware)
Thanks all,
Ed W
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Matheson [mailto:lang(_at_)ms(_dot_)chinmin(_dot_)edu(_dot_)tw]
Sent: 19 June 2002 10:57
To: procmail-users(_at_)procmail(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: MH Mail folders question
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Edward Wildgoose wrote:
A quick and easy question: If I have procmail delivering to an MH folder,
and my mail server might deliver multiple local messages simultaneously, then
do I need a lock file?
Man procmail says:
When delivering to directories, MH folders, or maildir
folders, you don't need to use lockfiles to prevent sever-
al concurrently running procmail programs from messing up.
--
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Chinmin College force meets the immovable object.
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