OT: Re: mailing list subject lines

[Chris Grau]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:03:09PM -0600, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote:

[snip]

> I used to have these rules:
> 
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
> #DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox   #completely optional
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail-log   #recommended
> 
> # psyche list
> :0:
> * ^TO_psyche-list at redhat.com
> mail/psyche

You have MAILDIR set, which means procmail is trying to send the mail to
$HOME/mail/mail/psyche, which I'm guessing doesn't exist.  That's what
causes the lock file error.

[snip]

> ... some time ago, but they didn't seem to work (they always complained
> about some lock file) so I had to remove them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex.

I use this in my ~/.procmailrc for fedora-list:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail

:0:
* ^List-Id: .*fedora-list.redhat.com
IN.fedora-list

Hope that helps.

-chris