Re: create nested maildirs as needed before creating a lock file?
Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.procmail |
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| Organization | Ptilopteri in Pandemonium |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* Richard Ball <[email protected]> [12-26-10 12:06]: > On 26-12-2010 3:14, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >and a/b/c doesn't exist, then an incoming EMail matching this > >rule becomes inaccessible. It is not lost, but it is stored > >somewhere in mbox format. This is surely not correct. > > > The "somewhere" was answered. > > What happens to the mail if the trailing : on the :0: construct is removed? read the manpages for procmail/procmailrc about locks removing the trailing ":" will have no effect for maildir as locks are not needed/used(?), but necessary for mdir to keep two processes from writing the same file at the same time (which equals corrumption). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org