Re: Procmail partially working

[Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net>]

> From cjwatson@debian.org Mon Jul 28 09:51:49 2003
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:46:11AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> [somebody broke attributions]
> > > > #Move flagged spam into the bottomless Unix pit.
> > > > :0:
> > > > * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
> > > > /dev/null
> > > 
> > > :0: says to use a locallockfile, which by default is the destination
> > > filename with $LOCKEXT appended, and you won't be able to write to
> > > /dev/null.lock. Try ':0:$HOME/.procmail.spam-lock' or something instead.
> > 
> > Better yet don't lock it at all, /dev/null really does not care if two
> > processes write to it at once.
> 
> Obviously I need more coffee :-)
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 

I have heard that it is a bad idea to use lockfiles with /dev/null in procmail.

The source was more than credible but couldn't remember why....


Alan


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