Re: procmail. query use of trailing :

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first
> line of a procmail recipe?
> 
> I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys
> and wherefores of same.
> 
> :0:
> * ^TOscuba
> scubafile
> 
> 
> :0
> * ^From.*peter
> * ^Subject:.*compilers
> petcompil
> 
> both examples from man procmailex.  Even if the second example has
> two conditions to be satisfied, why does it dispense with the
> trailing : ?

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html#locking

...RickM...