Re: Error locking the outdir...

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 10, 2002 at 21:43, J C Lawrence wrote:

> > Hmmmm.... I guess that I haven't yet sat down and learned about
> > ProcMail -- so that is the next thing that I should do....
> 
> You don't have to use procmail.  You can instead pipe diorectly to a
> script which invokes MHonArc (or pipe directly to MHonArc itself via
> plus-addressing).  I specifically don't do that as I want a filed
> separate canonical copy of every message and I want to run MHonArc
> under controlled/predictable conditions (with large archives it can
> be resource intensive).

Procmail is useful since it has robust locking capabilities, but
you could roll your own pre-processor.

Richard, you may want to check out a message I wrote a long time
ago archived at
<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/mhonarc/2000-07/msg00021.html>.
It should provide you with a good start.

--ewh