Re: Procmail and Pine
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:43:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>
> To: Debian Users List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Procmail and Pine
> Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:49:39 -0400
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Hmm. I've got a working procmailrc which sends mail from all the debian
> lists to ~/mail/debian, which is a pine mail folder. The problem is that
> pine expects this:
>
> ^A^A^A^A
> ^A^A^A^A
>
> between each message in a folder, and procmail isn't putting them there.
> This means that all 10-15 messages put into the folder by procmail look
> like one huge message to pine.
>
> Any way to get procmail to insert the delimiters?
>
Well, I just peeked in my pine mail folders and didn't find any such
delimiters. One thing that did cause me problems with procmail was
improper file locking, which led to similar problems with concatinated
messages. Here's part of my procmailrc dealing with debian, note the
colon at the end of the first line, it is required to make the file
locking behave properly:
:0w:
* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
inbox/debian-user-inbox
your pal dave
Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dthayer@netcom.com
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