Rob -- ...and then Rob Reid said... % % At 6:10 AM EST on March 22 Nicolas Rachinsky sent off: % > % > What happens if some mail is delivered to your inbox while you are % > executing this macro? I think your mailbox will get corrupt. % % I'm not completely sure what happens, but my mail comes in through sendmail ... % to force other processes to wait before writing, right? Even if no queue is % formed and stripmime's output gets trashed, I can just redo it.
It's not stripmime that will be the problem; it's the rest of your mailbox. The shell doesn't care about lockfiles (or other locking methods), so procmail could lock it all day long and you would still trash it with this method. Yes, you want to let procmail or mutt or some lock-aware app handle putting the output back onto your mailbox for you. % ... % Thanks for the warning. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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