On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:31 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > 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.
Uhm, where did you read that? Clearly, even a copy can deliver mail. :0 c: backup > Removing the lock from my backup copy solves the problem. As per the log snippet from your previous post: Procmail can't acquire the lock for some reason. But it does not complain that it couldn't deliver. The mail should have been appended to the backup mbox regardless. So why does the lock fail? Wrong permissions for the dir? guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}