[tlug] Re: Mutt complaining of a read-only mailspool

["big0" <big0@example.com>]

> In a later mail, however, he clued me into what was really going on, I think. In messing around with Procmail (which I am still learning), I switched from :0: to just :0 several times. According to Scott, the trailing colon affects how Procmail locks a file? Unless I misunderstood him, this is likely what caused my problem.

Yes : means "lock the mailbox". I usually put in my .procmailrc:
ORGMAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
LOGFILE=/path/to/procmail.log
VERBOSE=no
LOG="
"
so I can catch procmail-related errors (procmail.log file) 

And maybe a little bit off-topic, but on the same wave:
I'm using qmail for MTA. It is also mail delivery agent and put all messages
in users' home directories (~/Maildir/). AFAIK postfix also work with
user directories mailboxes. I use procmail mostly for anti-spamming.
Problem: procmail work with /var/mail/ mailboxes. Is there a way to avoid
this. Something like:
 - procmail patched to work with ~/Mailbox
 - regex directly in the ~/.qmail files
 - maildrop or safecat - somebody to have experience with them 

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