Re: Introduction to Maildir (was Re: mutt and mh/procmail)

[Phil Staub]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:34:48PM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 
> Here's a pretty safe maildir writer. Djb has some more rules for
> further paranoia; but the real world is not likely to bite you if
> you deliver messages like this. Written in Bourne Shell, but of
> course it codes into very lean, tight code in most any language.
> 
>       f=`date +%s`.$$.`hostname`
>       cd $maildir
>       cat >tmp/$f
>       mv tmp/$f new/
> 
> -Bennett

Sorry for the bonehead question, but, assuming you were going to use
this written as is (i.e., in Bourne shell) how would this be
incorporated into a procmail recipe? Would you literally put this in
the .procmailrc file, or write a shell script and invoke it from
.procmailrc?

Thanks,
Phil


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