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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file.
> procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock
> procmail: Error while writing to "~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca"
> I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified.
> 
> In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: 
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received
> PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc
> LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists
> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock
> :0:
> * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org
> ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions

You want the receipe to store emails in
/home/you/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions?
So the receipe has to be:

	:0:
	* ^TO.*questions@freebsd\.org
	Lists/FreeBSD-Questions


Oliver
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