[Gllug] .procmailrc and lockfile question

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > 
> > :0: $HOME/.mail
> > * .*
> > /var/mail/b-fitzge
> > 
> > This is messy. There must be a better way but I'm not seeing it.
> > Obviously I'd like to keep permissions on /var/spool/mail as
> > tight as possible.
> 
> Why is that so messy?

Hi Pete,

It's not a real pain. I'm just curious about how others have handled this.

> As long as all mail is going through your procmail, it should work just
> fine.
> 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> My preferred method is not to write out mail to /var/spool/mail/ as a user
> at all (it's not supposed to work like that IMHO), but instead write out
> general mail to ~/mail/ with everything else.  Then just configure your mail
> client to pick the mail up from there instead of /var/spool/mail/.

That approach means my problem doesn't even arise. One way round it.

If /var/spool/mail isn't supposed to work this way, why would you
have the directory and what else might you use it for?

Ben
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