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/