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Re: Procmail partially working



On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:46, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > > #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.

Would multiple feeds poring into the bit bucket at the same time risk
splash back and possible corruption of nearby memory from the spray? ;)
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ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting
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