On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first > line of a procmail recipe? > > I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys > and wherefores of same. > > :0: > * ^TOscuba > scubafile > > > :0 > * ^From.*peter > * ^Subject:.*compilers > petcompil > > both examples from man procmailex. Even if the second example has > two conditions to be satisfied, why does it dispense with the > trailing : ?
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html#locking ...RickM...
