On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:49:40PM -0800, Raynald Mompoint wrote: > I just recently started using the combination > fetchmail + procmail + mutt. Procmail seems to filter my incoming > mail OK and puts them in the appropriate mailboxes. But I am > seeing two things that dont seem right. > > 1. With mutt running, new mail that should be filtered appears to come into my > default mailbox (/var/mail/<my user name> FIRST and then a while > later it gets moved to the correct mailbox. Shouldn't the mail > go directly to the correct mailbox? > > 2. While mutt is running I feek seeing the message > "Mailbox Modified. Flags may be incorrect.". Why is this happening?
Sounds like a locking problem to me. I am sure someone else will explain, since procmail and it's use of locks is one of the greatest mysteries on earth (at least to a dummy like me) I will be interested to read the answer. -- Regards Cliff
