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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: duplicate message-id filter isn't working for me (procmail 3.11pre7)
From:       era eriksson <era () iki ! fi>
Date:       1997-10-28 11:03:27
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On 28 Oct 1997 12:29:49 +0200, <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> wrote:
 > I didn't quite follow this LOCKFILE usage. Can't it be placed to
 > the beginning of receipe. Like this? (Never mind that H is useless here9
 >         :0H : $LOCKFILE

LOCKFILE, like LOG and a host of other variables, is special to
Procmail. It is used to establish a regional lock over a number of
recipes (or a global one, when the region is your entire .procmailrc).
$LOCKFILE does, in fact, expand to the value of the lock file used,
but the usage you propose is counter-productive at best. (Procmail,
luckily, detects what is happening and reports "deadlock attempted" in
the log file.)

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