On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > > > Oh my. You still use mbox? > > Jason, > > That's apparently the default with pine/alpine. It's worked for a dozen > years, and seems appropriate since I use the same box as both the (mail) > server and my workstation. If there's a smooth transition to maildir, I've > no objection to using that instead. > > > In that case, learn about the file locking flag for procmail recipes and > > make sure you use it in all the right places. (IIRC, you can use it too > > much and usually not have an issue, it will just degrade performance.) If > > you have a missing lock, I could see how occasionally you'd lose a > > message. > > How might a locking flag suddenly go missing? And why would it affect > only > specific sending domains, and consistently do so? Two of those domains had > not before sent me any messages, but each sent two (original and a resend) > and neither made it to my INBOX. The third sends messages every day that > were always seen. That stopped earlier this week. > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: > 503-667-8863 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Rich, Here's a blob for converting mbox to maildir. http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
