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Re: create nested maildirs as needed before creating a lock file?

2010-12-26 12:49:32
* Richard Ball <rgball(_at_)ellerbach(_dot_)com> [12-26-10 12:06]:
On 26-12-2010 3:14, Harald Dunkel wrote:
and a/b/c doesn't exist, then an incoming EMail matching this
rule becomes inaccessible. It is not lost, but it is stored
somewhere in mbox format. This is surely not correct.

The "somewhere" was answered.

What happens to the mail if the trailing : on the :0: construct is removed?

read the manpages for procmail/procmailrc about locks

removing the trailing ":" will have no effect for maildir as locks are
not needed/used(?), but necessary for mdir to keep two processes from
writing the same file at the same time (which equals corrumption).

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