-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-01-26 at 20:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
fetchmail -> postfix -> procmail -> user choosen directory and folder
Yes, I left out a step, postfix. But the mail is still handled by procmail *before* the client has access.
Ah. It is possible for the MUA to be accessing the same folder where procmail is about to store a new email. And it is possible that the user is also about to compose an email - it should be on a diferent folder, though. A situation that happens if the folder is of type "mbox", is that procmail is adding a new email at the end, while the MUA is removing another one from the middle. Even worse, the MUA could be compacting the folder. The way to avoid this is using a locking mechanism, but each program uses a diferent method, and procmail can be told about it - except that diferent MUAs use diferent locks :-( Of course, using maildir folders the problem is not so bad. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD2YmTtTMYHG2NR9URAkxlAJ41/AezNlvaeEMBgR8GfpCUMXNfuACfX+lq gtZZLPTRbIRBPKSjCAeZcv4= =J3YA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----