There have been a lot of posts about procmail, so I thought I'd jump in with a question too.
I've installed procmail, but haven't done anything with it yet. I use Netscape for a mail reader at home and office. It only uses file locking on the system mail spool (the Inbox), not any of the folders that it uses and maintains. I figure (and Netscape sortof warns) that using a mail filter like procmail or mailagent that intercepts mail and writes it to Netscape's folders would be asking for trouble. So, I figure I need a program to use as an external movemail program for Netscape (I've been using its internal one) that has the smarts of a mail filter. Can procmail or mailagent be used as a batch "movemail" program like this? I figure that it would be safe, since it would only be executed by Netscape when I click the GetMail button. It's not hard to remember not to do anything else within the Netscape mail reader while it's processing the button that I just clicked to get new mail. Whether or not the above is possible, is there some other way to safely combine a mail filter program and a mail reader that doesn't use locks on it's mail folders? -- ...RickM...