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Re: Using 'procmail -m ...' (question)

2004-10-28 15:57:05
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:40:51PM +0200, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
Toen wij William Park kietelden, kwam er dit uit:

    :0
    /dev/null

One difference between having this at the end of you .procmailrc 
and setting DEFAULT to /dev/null is that delivery to DEFAULT 
always uses locking. (is what I read somewhere)

I'd like some confirmation of this.  I have heard the opposite,
actually, from someone who has examined the code.  Namely,
that even this recipe

   :0:
   /dev/null

won't invoke the lockfile.  I have no idea if that's right or
wrong, but I tested with a couple hundred messages in-line with
or without the lockfile colon, and I couldn't see any difference
in time.

-- 
dman

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