Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > David Maslen writes: > > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. > > qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your > procmail binary also uses flock, there sh

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues writes: > David Maslen writes: > > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. > > qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your > procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail > -v' to check:

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Sen Nagata
perhaps you will find: http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man1/preline.html useful...(also searching for 'procmail' at http://www.qmail.org/ may be helpful) -sen at some point around 8 Feb 1998 16:20:26 - David Maslen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe t

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
David Maslen writes: > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() > If I use

Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-08 Thread David Maslen
I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. I can pipe incoming mail through procmail, into various folders. I've tested it and it works, sorting my incoming mail into several folders. Currently I use emacs + vm to read mail. It takes mail from my ~/Mailbox, and copies it to ~/Mail/i