question about .procmailrc
Hello all, I am using spamassasin in .procmailrc (unix account). my question is about .procmailrc: is .procmailrc synchronized? I mean, if two new mails are coming to my accout, will the first .procmailrc script execution finish before the second execution will start? I am trying to do something so the order is very importent. Thank you, Asi
Re: question about .procmailrc
Thank you for the fast reply, But I need somethig a little bit more complicated: I want to ensure the a whole .procmailrc execution will be completed before a next begins. I am trying to do a small experiment : In my .procmailrc I call to 3 different spamfilter, and then I write the results to a file. there for I must ensure execution completion before another execution begin. Does anyone know how can I do it? Thank you, Asi On Mon 23 Jan 19:58 2006 Mike Jackson wrote: I am using spamassasin in .procmailrc (unix account). my question is about .procmailrc: is .procmailrc synchronized? I mean, if two new mails are coming to my accout, will the first .procmailrc script execution finish before the second execution will start? I am trying to do something so the order is very importent. This seems more like a question for a procmail mailing list than this one, but oh well. procmail executes once for each message it processes, so you could have more than one procmail process running concurrently. If you are concerned that one action is finished before the next begins, use file locking. For instance, here's an entry from my file where I execute ClamAV: :0fw: clamailfilter.lock | /usr/local/bin/clamscan-procfilter That way, even if more than one procmail process is running, ClamAV will only be running for one of them at a time.
Re: question about .procmailrc
Thank you for the fast reply,
But I need somethig a little bit more complicated:
I want to ensure the a whole .procmailrc execution will be completed before a
next begins.
I am trying to do a small experiment : In my .procmailrc I call to 3 different
spamfilter, and then I write the results to a file. there for I must ensure
execution completion before another execution begin.
Does anyone know how can I do it?
Thank you,
Asi
On Mon 23 Jan 21:14 2006 jdow wrote:
From: galili assaf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
I am using spamassasin in .procmailrc (unix account).
my question is about .procmailrc:
is .procmailrc synchronized? I mean, if two new mails are coming to my
accout, will the
first .procmailrc script execution finish before the second execution will
start?
I am trying to do something so the order is very importent.
Thank you,
It is if you tell it to lock. If you are writing to a file then you do need
to lock. If not then locking is not needed. You can name the locks or you
can use a generic lock. The man pages procmailrc and procmailex are good
friends here.
Format for a named lock
:0c: clone.lock
$home/mail/clone
Format for a generic lock
:0c:
$home/mail/clone
Format for no lock
:0h
stuff
And so forth
{^_^}
