Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:56:32 -0500 From: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> Subject: Re: Procmail Lockfile Message-ID: <20041221225632.GA37422@gardnerbell.ca> In-Reply-To: <200412211408.52989.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <20041221205621.GA31153@gardnerbell.ca> <20041221212712.GA1929@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> <200412211408.52989.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800 Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27 pm, Oliver Fuchs > <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> wrote: > > 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 > > I use: > > * ^List-Id:.*freebsd-questions.freebsd.org > > so that mail from other fbsd lists aren't mixed up in the wrong folders, > and so I can separate CC responses. > > - jt Both recipies have worked for me, thanks for the help Gardner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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