Re: Procmail partially working

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/28/03

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    > From cjwatson@debian.org Mon Jul 28 09:51:49 2003
    >
    >
    > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:46:11AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
    > > Colin Watson wrote:
    > [somebody broke attributions]
    > > > > #Move flagged spam into the bottomless Unix pit.
    > > > > :0:
    > > > > * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
    > > > > /dev/null
    > > >
    > > > :0: says to use a locallockfile, which by default is the destination
    > > > filename with $LOCKEXT appended, and you won't be able to write to
    > > > /dev/null.lock. Try ':0:$HOME/.procmail.spam-lock' or something instead.
    > >
    > > Better yet don't lock it at all, /dev/null really does not care if two
    > > processes write to it at once.
    >
    > Obviously I need more coffee :-)
    >
    > --
    > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
    >

    I have heard that it is a bad idea to use lockfiles with /dev/null in procmail.

    The source was more than credible but couldn't remember why....

    Alan

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