From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 11:15:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22607 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 11:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22602 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 11:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13861; Wed, 29 May 1996 11:09:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605291809.LAA13861@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Er... how long To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:09:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at May 29, 96 09:33:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Incidentally, ELM also comes with "filter" (a sendmail .forward filter > > program) which allows you to filter out mail from different lists into > > different mail file folders so you don't have to deal with this manually. > > It's similar to procmail (so I've heard), but allegedly procmail is more > > capable. FWIW, here's a sample portion of my ~/.elm/filter-rules: > > For the record, if you use elm's filter, one day you *will* loose > mail. This is not a matter of if, but when. This is a platform > independent "feature", not a quirk in the freebsd version. Do > the right thing and use procmail. Unfortunately, the syntax of > procmail rules file are a little obtuse when compared to filter > but I guess it makes for faster parsing. What race condition do you believe exists such that this will happen? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.