procmail locking and demonizing
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how to get fetch/procmail working as a daemon...
here's fetchmail:
# .fetchmailrc 1/16/98
poll mailer.cia-g.com
protocol pop3
user dmallery
pass ??????
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-"
fetchall
ane here's procmail:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
DEFAULT=Amisc
:0
* ^.*debian-user@lists.debian.org
deb-user
:0
* ^.*debian-changes@lists.debian.org
deb-changes
:0
* ^.*seti@sni.net
seti
[snip]
there are at least two considerations:
1) locking and 2) $HOME
does it suffice to simply use the :0: construct on each of
the filters in procmailrc?? what about Amisc, my default?
i can't find any evidence that pine is setting any locks
(at least not the xxxx.lock variety). if i make an xxxx.lock
file in /mail, then pine does hold off opening that folder...
if the fetchmail/procmail runs as a daemon, started by ppp.up
then will i not have to make the $HOME reference explicit to
my account (and the location of my /mail directory?) since
ppp.up (i think) is started as root...
i've really tried to track this one down... i hate to lose mail
and that's what happened last time i tackled this.
thanks mucho
dave
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