awesome, thanks.  ok, almost there.  one last thing...

so now i have a key bound to "!formail -s procmail < $HOME/mailbox", now how do i get rid of the messages in $HOME/mailbox?  can i simply execute this command instead: "!formail -s procmail < $HOME/mailbox && rm $HOME/mailbox"?  this seems scary to me.  what if while that command is executing and the mail system is simultaneously delivering mail?  won't i end up loosing messages?  for example, what if "formail -s procmail < $HOME/mailbox" finishes running, the mail system delivers more mail to $HOME/mailbox, THEN the "rm $HOME/mailbox" command runs.  i'll lose those newly delivered messages, no?

thanks for the help again,
-- christopher

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:12:45PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2003.09.26, in <20030926205732.GA17189@thor.cs.utexas.edu>,
> *	"christopher j bottaro" <cjb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > You probably should designate $HOME/mailbox as your dropbox, and create
> > > another folder to be your "inbox", so that messages only need to be
> > > processed once, and you don't need to mess around with moving messages
> > > out of and back into $HOME/mailbox.
> >
> > right. so i have a bunch of procmail receipes to filter my mailing
> > list emails, how do i write a receipe that says "if it didn't fit any
> > other receipe, shove it in $HOME/Mail/inbox"?
> 
> In your procmailrc, put:
> 	ORGMAIL=$HOME/Mail/inbox
> 
> $ORGMAIL defines the default folder for messages to be saved to if they
> don't get saved/forwarded/piped anywhere else.
> 
> I think that should work. If all else fails, you can just put a final
> delivery recipe at the end of the procmailrc:
> 	## Matches anything that's not disposed-of yet
> 	:0
> 	$HOME/Mail/inbox
> 
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