Re: how to stop alert "Nvi saved the file .procmailrc"

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:56:47PM +0000, David Turner wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:45 am, Stephen wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >-- Subject:  Nvi saved the file .procmailrc
> > > Body: On Mon Jan 26 16:37:17 2004, the user root was editing a
> > > file named /home/david/.procmailrc on the machine anubis,
> > > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not
> > > all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:
> > >
> > >   vi -r /home/david/.procmailrc
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

Hi,

I think you should simply do what it wants:

vi -r /home/david/.procmailrc

See what happens. If the file does not contain what you want, just do 
:q!

Then vi should be satisfied and not send any more mails. (At least it did so
in a similar situation on my computer.)

HTH
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller

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