Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:27:12 +0100 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Lockfile Message-ID: <20041221212712.GA1929@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: <20041221205621.GA31153@gardnerbell.ca> References: <20041221205621.GA31153@gardnerbell.ca>
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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 -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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