Re: procmail. query use of trailing :
To all who answered this, thanks, has taken me a while to get around
to it. I checked out the useful site this evening and have got some
good ideas.
Thanks again
Ian
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 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...
>
>
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