errors & procmail locking

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

>> Without procmail's locking the frequency of errors goes up.  The most
>> recent is below.  It shows messages arriving 2 seconds apart and a
>> couple of error/rescue sequences.

What exactly are you locking or not? I am wondering what
could be unclear here.

>> procmail: Opening "mail.backup"
>> procmail: [31706] Sat Jun 19 10:39:58 2004
>> procmail: Opening "mail.backup"
>> 
>> procmail: Executing "bogofilter,-p,-l,-e,-u,-U"
>> procmail: Executing "bogofilter,-p,-l,-e,-u,-U"
>> procmail: [31710] Sat Jun 19 10:40:00 2004
>> procmail: Error while writing to "bogofilter"
>> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>> procmail: [31710] Sat Jun 19 10:40:00 2004
>
>I cannot reproduce anything of this. Why does bogofilter stop accepting
>data or bail out with error?

My understanding is that procmail wants to write to the file
or folder bogofilter and cannot. Therefore, the mail is
rescued.

pi