>> Until today, all these failures had turned up in spam mailboxes (I
>> run SpamBayes' sb_filter.py script from my procmailrc file to score
>> incoming mail)
>> I'm guessing THAT program is what emits to the mailbox in question.
>> THAT program needs to ensure there's a TRAILING newline when it
>> writes messages.
Nope, it's run in filter mode.
>> # everything else falls through to here.
>> :0
>> mbox
>> Danger Will Robinson!
>> Skip didn't use a LOCKFILE flag on this recipe.
As a couple other people also pointed out in private mail. I thought
without the second colon I was getting a default lockfile based on the
output file name. I misread the procmailrc file oh, five years ago and have
been laboring under that misconception ever since.
Thanks for the feedback. That will probably solve my problem.
>> What else are you using to manipulate these mailboxes? Perhaps a
>> crummy MUA, or writing messages to it from some other program?
Nope, only procmail writes to them. Lack of locking is probably the entire
explanation.
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