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Re: Procmail and mh question
- To: Jerry Feldman <http://www.blu.org/~gaf>
- Subject: Re: Procmail and mh question
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:59:40 +0000
- Cc: http://www.Blu.Org/~discuss
- In-Reply-To: <200007251126.http://www.gaf.ne.mediaone.net/~HAA22123>
- Keywords: Jerry Feldman <http://www.blu.org/~gaf
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.lugs.boston
> From: Jerry Feldman <http://www.blu.org/~gaf>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:26:14 -0400
>
> In my .procmailrc, for each entry I am locking a lockfile. Since I use MH,
> I was wondering if the lock is necessary since rcvstore should do it. Here
> is an example of my filter
> :0 w: BLU/incoming/$LOCKEXT
> * ^http://www.blu.org/~TO_discuss
> | ${RCVSTORE} +BLU/incoming
>
> Just curious.
> --
> Jerry Feldman <http://www.blu.org/~gaf>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
With this recipe, the lock file would be BLU/incoming/.lock, which is not
terribly useful (i.e., you're locking the entire directory). I don't use
mh, but I assume that rcvstore puts the message into a unique file in the
directory specified. If so, I would say that the locking was indeed
redundant.