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Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly



On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:32PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> > > A very large file in
> > > /var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
> > 
> > That would be the default delivery.
> > Your procmail file should end with this
> > 
> > :0
> > /dev/null
> > 
> > to prevent that.
> 
> Won't that lose mail if any recipe fails?

much better to 

:0
/path/to/a/catchall/mailbox/

mis-sorted mail is preferable to lost mail.

A

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