On Monday 01 November 2004 20:58, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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/$LOGNAME.lock. However, since Postfix does not use procmail I was wondering if it followed the same convention that procmail does?
I am not sure, I have never bothered to see if Postfix uses a lock file because I use Maildir but I could offer you one observation. You can have postfix deliver through procmail. The relevant section in your /etc/postfix/main.cf file is: # IF YOU USE THIS TO DELIVER MAIL SYSTEM-WIDE, YOU MUST SET UP AN # ALIAS THAT FORWARDS MAIL FOR ROOT TO A REAL USER. # #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za