Re: [Exim] procmail and exim

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Author: John Jetmore
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] procmail and exim
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Stelios Asmargianakis wrote:

> bash-2.05$ cat .procmailrc
> :0:
> * ^From:.*asmar@medisign\.gr
> /dev/null


as a semi pointless aside on a list where most people think procmail is an
abomination, the second ':' in ':0:' means 'lock the destination file
before delivering'. So you're protecting /dev/null from becoming
corrupted =). Of course in this case you're just testing so it doesn't
matter, but at least in older versions of procmail using :0: instead of :0
when delivering to remote email addresses or a pipe would still lock
something, creating an unnecessary bottleneck

--john