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Re: Mutt problem, probably with procmail



* Rejo Zenger <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [09-13-08 15:15]:
> ++ 13/09/08 09:20 -0400 - Patrick Shanahan:
> >Well, your procmail recipe will not work as the matches begin at the
> >start of the recipe, ie:  ^TO
> >and your recipe will not match a normal "To:" Header.
> >and will not deliver to "Maildir" type mailboxes, needs trailing /.
> >
> >:0:
> >* ^TO_.*lugola-info-center
> >$MAILDIR/lugola/
> 
> If this would be the recipe you settle with, you should remove the 
> second colon on the first line. The second colon tells procmail to lock 
> the mailbox it wants to write to. This is required for mbox mailboxes, 
> but for maildir mailboxes it is useless (as you never have two processes 
> writing to the same file). 

Yes, that is correct.  I didn't change the recipe to Maildir format
until reading his .muttrc and should have removed the unnecessary lock.


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