On Thursday 26 January 2006 9:38 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Then THE mail setup is broken. Procmail is a mail delivery agent and as such should handle mail before the client sees it. If not your client is performing functions that it *should* not. You can do it one way or the other, mixing *will* cause problems and is not as was intended. The reason I use the word, dangerous, is that it is easy to make a mistake. The .procmailrc format is not trivial. You need to make sure that the mail client and procmail are using the same locking strategy.
Take the following situation: 1. The main client uses an MH directory structure. It must scan each directory preiodically to detect new mail. It is configured NOT to "inc" - incorporate imae from /var/spool/man/<user>. 2. Procmail as the delivery agent takes mail from /var/spool/man/<user> and inserts the email into $HOME/Mail/<target mh subdirectory). The problem exists when the mail client may move or delete email. If both procmail and the mail client are using the same locking strategy, then no problem exists. It is a configuration issue, not generally a mail client issue. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9