On January 10, 2002 at 21:43, J C Lawrence wrote: > > Hmmmm.... I guess that I haven't yet sat down and learned about > > ProcMail -- so that is the next thing that I should do.... > > You don't have to use procmail. You can instead pipe diorectly to a > script which invokes MHonArc (or pipe directly to MHonArc itself via > plus-addressing). I specifically don't do that as I want a filed > separate canonical copy of every message and I want to run MHonArc > under controlled/predictable conditions (with large archives it can > be resource intensive).
Procmail is useful since it has robust locking capabilities, but you could roll your own pre-processor. Richard, you may want to check out a message I wrote a long time ago archived at <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/2000-07/msg00021.html>. It should provide you with a good start. --ewh
