From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3944 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Hildebrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus5, procmail, and reading mail lists. Date: 13 Nov 1995 15:43:23 -0700 Organization: Fuentez Systems Concepts, Inc. Sender: hildebra@arls2006.fuentez.com Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hildjj@fuentez.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144762 28054 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA14082 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:41:15 -0800 Original-Received: from ipcsun3.den.mmc.com (ipcsun3.den.mmc.com [160.205.18.31]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:38:15 +0100 Original-Received: from arls2006.asas.den.mmc.com (arls2006.den.mmc.com) by ipcsun3.den.mmc.com (4.1/1.34.a) id AA29792; Mon, 13 Nov 95 15:43:24 MST Original-Received: by arls2006.asas.den.mmc.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA22384; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:43:24 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Attribution: Joe In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 13 Nov 1995 12:33:34 -0800 Original-Lines: 47 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3944 > "Steven" == Steven L Baur writes: Steven> LOCKEXT=+ Steven> I thought movemail *did* use .lock for an extension. At Steven> least that's what the XEmacs sources seem to imply. I got that from somewhere.... anyone want to 'fess up? I haven't lost any mail (that I know of :) using either that or the default. Maybe I'll go have a look at the 19.29 movemail source. Steven> If you are going to use Gnus expiration, it is important to Steven> also set: (setq nnmail-keep-last-article t) I thought this was only if procmail was delivering directly to the nnm[lh] directory. Steven> If you are going to generate NOV databases out of procmail, Steven> you will have to deal with the same locking issues you face Steven> with the spool files, with the added nicety that while the Steven> NOV database is being updated Gnus must be locked out too. Steven> I don't think anybody is doing it this way. Anymore. Some people may still be using add-active-nov. mb> Finally, should I restrict myself to the Gnus5 expiry process, mb> or can I just run a simple cron job each weekend to remove old mb> mail? (I suspect that might confuse Gnus5 after a while, mb> though.) Steven> I had previously been using the pattern: ^TOding(-request)? Steven> This doesn't work 100% mainly due to messages being Cc:'ed Steven> to you and the mailing list. procmailrc(5) says: If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be substi- tuted by `(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope |Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^a-zA-Z])?)', which should catch all destination specifications. which should catch CCs. -- Joe Hildebrand Fuentez Systems Concepts hildjj@fuentez.com 11781 Lee-Jackson Hwy, Suite 700 Lead Software Engineer Fairfax, VA 22033 "Breakfast recapitulates phylogeny" - Spider Robinson