IF you use procmail as the lda, postfix *does* use procmail. Postfix default delivers to /var/mail/$USER. If you set postfix to use procmail, procmail accepts mail from postfix (before delivery to $USER) and delivers mail according to your recipies, and utilizes locks *only* where you have placed them in your recipies. At the present time, at work, I do not use procmail. I just use a vanilla
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 8:29 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote: postfix with the built-in postfix lda. (And yes, postfix does deliver email to /var/mail/$USER (/var/mail is symlinked to /var/spool/mail). The question is in the case where I am not using postfix, how does postfix set its locks. (The kmail default is /var/spool/mail/$USER.lock). --- At home I do use procmail with many recipies and sylpheed. And procmail does deliver to my mh directories. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org