Re: Gnus5, procmail, and reading mail lists.

[Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@fuentez.com>]

> "Jason" == Jason L Tibbitts <tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu> writes:


   Jason> As you see, I really need Procmail to keep the recent list,
   Jason> and I need the .overview file to be up to date while I'm
   Jason> splitting.  Of course, if anyone has any better ways of
   Jason> doing this, I'm all ears.  I know this works without
   Jason> problems.

   Joe> I'm interested in getting everyone cut over to the Gnus way.

I guess I'm worried that people are going to lose mail, and blame me,
since my name is on the script.  Even though it's not my fault Gnus
can't do locking :)

   Jason> I wonder if I can keep doing the archives my while doing
   Jason> everything else the proper way without any conflicts.

No problem.  Keep your archive delivery script.  Add one more branch
at the top of the {} block:


:0: ding.lock
*^TOding@ifi.uio.no
{
      :0c:
      ding.spool

      # turn add-active-nov on, from here to the end of this block.
      # since the block starts a sub-shell, this shouldn't propagate
      # out of the block.
      TRAP=add-active-nov

      ...
}

Remove the TRAP from the beginning of your .procmailrc, 
then see <URL:http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/> for
instructions on how to set up ding to slurp your .spool files.

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