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Re: [Nmh-workers] refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences
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Paul Fox |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:51:40 -0500 |
hi mark --
address@hidden wrote:
>
> I frequently have corrupt .mh_sequences files, most likely due
> to interaction between procmail (using rcvstore) and claws-mail
> (which updates .mh_sequences, but seems to ignore rcvstore locks,
> unsurprisingly).
>
> Regardless of the cause, I often end up with a .mh_sequences file that
> has a line break between message numbers and looks like:
i have trouble dredging up sympathy for bugs that result from ignoring
a locking protocol. :-)
i guess i avoid this by delivering from procmail to mbox files
(maildir would be fine too -- just never switched over), for which the
locking protocol is well known and understood.
when i want to read mail, i run a script that loops across all
(or optionally just a subset) of those mbox files, inc'ing into
corresponding mh folders. the inc'ing script could be run from cron
if one wanted something closer to true asynchrony, i suppose.
paul
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 35.6 degrees)