Procmail and mh question

[Robert Brown]

 > From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
 > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:26:14 -0400
 >
 > In my .procmailrc, for each entry I am locking a lockfile. Since I use MH, 
 > I was wondering if the lock is necessary since rcvstore should do it. Here 
 > is an example of my filter
 > 	:0 w: BLU/incoming/$LOCKEXT 
 > 	* ^TO_discuss at blu.org
 > 	| ${RCVSTORE} +BLU/incoming
 > 
 > Just curious.
 > -- 
 > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
 > Boston Linux and Unix user group
 > http://www.blu.org

With this recipe, the lock file would be BLU/incoming/.lock, which is not
terribly useful (i.e., you're locking the entire directory).  I don't use
mh, but I assume that rcvstore puts the message into a unique file in the
directory specified.  If so, I would say that the locking was indeed
redundant.

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