From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54039 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus + procmail question Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:26:42 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nn0cufpnh.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064399228 7561 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 10:27:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2579@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 24 12:27:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A26rS-0005ps-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:27:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A26rM-0005VI-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:27:00 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A26rI-0005VD-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (clifford.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.41]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702C93A004C for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:26:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (lockgroove [134.174.9.133]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h8OAQm710341; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h8OAQg900934; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:26:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Emerick Rogul X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Emerick Rogul , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Emerick Rogul's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:16:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54039 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, emerick@cs.bu.edu wrote: > I'm using procmail to pre-filter my e-mail so that anything with a > dangerous-looking attachment (.exe, .pif, etc.) gets forwarded to > /dev/null (everything else stays in my spool). Given that this is > the only way I'm using procmail, do I have to tell Gnus about it at > all? If you're using IMAP to get mail, maybe the server should know about procmail's lock files. If it's a local spool, Gnus should respect procmail's file locks but I don't know for sure that it does. I have never had problems because of it, but I may have had the problems and not realized it. Ted