Quoting Wojciech Zabolotny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just wanted to configure procmail in my system, and I'm a little afraid > of locking problems. How should I configure the locking in procmail and > in mutt, to avoid the destruction of mail folders when procmail delivers > a message to the folder which is currently beeing modified by mutt. > Is there any universal solution (I'd like to be able to access the procmail > created folders with other MUA's eg. pine, Mozilla etc.).
I've had no problems with procmail/mutt. I think procmail tries to use dot and kernel locking. You can certainly see it in action in a verbose log. I think the universal solution is multiple locking methods, but I've no idea about NFS mounts. Just remember the second : in the recipe line i.e. typically :0: The combination I had problems with was imap on sunos and debian pine after they updated imap on sunos (in 1997, when pine was still distributed as a binary by Debian). I blamed imap and have never used it since, preferring to run mutt locally on the sun and letting X/ssh deal with the "remoteness". Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.