Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to be a delivery action and therefore does not need a lock.
Removing the lock from my backup copy solves the problem. I just want to thank everyone for their patience on this one... Thanks also to Mouss, Larry and others who replied to this thread with advice or suggestions about my reasons for doing this. Just to clarify: I am a home user and I have (amongst others) a demon.co.uk account. This allows me to create my own subdomain - mydomain.demon.co.uk which allows me tremendous flexibility to create an unlimited number of email addresses (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.) The downside of this of course is that it is a "catchall" account and, in any case, rejecting at MTA is not possible because the mail has already been accepted by my ISP. SA has been VERY effective at stopping most of the rubbish, and now this Procmail recipe takes some of the strain off. The only FP I have had was where a round-robin email that included someone called something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the distribution list triggered. I fixed that by looking for 5 or more consecutive digits (my old SA rule will suffice for any that are only 4...). Thanks to all (especially Guenther) again. Back on-topic now... (Promise!) Mark
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