Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

[Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues <anr@ime.usp.br>]

Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues writes:
 > David Maslen writes:
 >  > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail.
 > 
 > qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your
 > procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail
 > -v' to check:
 > 
 > Locking strategies:     dotlocking, flock()

Forgot to mention that if all your mail goes to procmail (qmail doesn't do
deliveries) then you shouldn't worry about procmail not using flock.

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Adriano


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