I've been using procmail for years, and my procedures normally work around its foibles. In particular (ignoring oddities in what triggers some of the regexes), when a mailbox gets "large" (something like 50 MB, but the file size and number of mails varies), it overflows and falls down to the default - normally my main mbox instead of the list-specific variant. So, for large lists, procmail writes to a series of mailboxes (lkml, lkml2, etc) and occasionally I have to update these rules when mail suddenly drops into my main mbox. And then once a month I move to a new set of mailboxes and archive those from a year before, then set up symlinks manually for those mailboxes I might want to refer back to. Simples.
Unfortunately, I never got around to clearing out the fcron mails in my main mbox from when I try to update the SpamAssassin rulesets. Only just realised that nothing (as distinct from 'nothing interesting') had been coming in to the main mbox since the end of last month - it was all in /var/mail. So, mails to lkml that I thought didn't get replies (it was the easter weekend) actually did get replies. Meanwhile, I was adding to the thread in ignorance of this. Colour me embarrassed enough to ask: Does anyone else see this problem, and is there any known solution (apart from moving to maildir, which I have always rejected) ? ĸen (hiding in a brown paper bag :) -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
