Procmail Lockfile

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27 pm, Oliver Fuchs 
<oliverfuchs at onlinehome.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously
> > receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking
> > ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock
> > procmail: Error while writing to
> > "~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca" I do receive my mail but it
> > always ends up in the default location that I have specified.
> >
> > In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables:
> > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
> > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received
> > PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc
> > LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists
> > SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> >
> > This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock
> >
> > :0:
> >
> > * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org
> > ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions
>
> You want the receipe to store emails in
> /home/you/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions?
>
> So the receipe has to be:
> 	:0:
>
> 	* ^TO.*questions at freebsd\.org
> 	Lists/FreeBSD-Questions

I use:

* ^List-Id:.*freebsd-questions.freebsd.org

so that mail from other fbsd lists aren't mixed up in the wrong folders, 
and so I can separate CC responses.

- jt