Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> [11-02-04 04:04]:
> This is surely an RTFM, but I was not able to locate it in the FAQs.
> KMail uses a lock file (or fcntl) to lock a local mailbox when 
> incorporating email. Procmail(1) uses /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME.lock. 
> However, since Postfix does not use procmail I was wondering if it 
> followed the same convention that procmail does?

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.

> 
> Also, AFAIK, fetchmail simply pipes its output into postfix via the 
> sendmail interface, so the only guys updating /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME are 
> postfix and kmail.
> 

If I used kmail, I would turn off kmail's fetching (both local and
externall) and allow procmail to deliver.  Remember to set locks when
writing to mbox files (the trailing ':' as :0:), not necessary to
maildir files.

Kmail and procmail should each honor the locks of the other and not
cause any problem other than a delay.  But why utilize two lda's?  Pick
one or the other and do not make a potential problem.


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