On 14/11/2021 02.51, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
In the Message;
Subject : Re: [oS-en] fetchmail-procmail problem Message-ID : <87ee7j5xdc.wl-nomiya@galaxy.dti.ne.jp> Date & Time: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:39:27 +0900
[MN] == Masaru Nomiya
has written: MN> Hello,
MN> In the Message;
MN> Subject : Re: [oS-en] fetchmail-procmail problem MN> Message-ID : <50887dfd-fcad-ef00-0107-f0b9efa2ae09@telefonica.net> MN> Date & Time: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:31:34 +0100
MN> [CER] == "Carlos E. R."
has written: MN> [...] CER>>> He is using maildir. I want mbox. CER> > CER> > Ah, I see. CER> > CER> > MAILDIR="$HOME/Dropbox/Mail" CER> > DEFAULT="inbox/" CER> > LOGFILE="$HOME/.procmail.log" CER> > [...] CER> > :0 CER> > inbox CER> > CER> > I DO recommend you to use mh format. CER> > Because, you should use a lock if you store a message using mbox form CER> > to prevent accidents such as "which the next message is written in at CER> > before a message before" is stored.
CER> I know all that, I have been using mbox for more than two decades CER> without a problem, and I do not want to change.
Do you really understand the issue which I wrote;
Because, you should use a lock if you store a message using mbox form to prevent accidents such as "which the next message is written in at before a message before" is stored.
This relate to procmail.
Yes, I do. It is not an issue, because we are talking of a single folder, not any other process is writing to that folder, and there is indeed a lock: +++----> STARTING LOG at minas-tirith.valinor 2021-11-13 21:38:16.702260932+01:00 (msgid: <20211109015055.1547604-2-david@fromorbit.com>) procmail: Assigning "dummy=you can use this dummy to tell things on the log - when verbose is on" procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/cer/Mail/alpine_r_tl_tmp" procmail: Opening "/home/cer/Mail/alpine_r_tl_tmp" ** procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock -- Saludos/Cheers Carlos E. R.