[PLUG] The perfect spam filter

Tyler F. Creelan creelan at engr.orst.edu
Tue Jul 9 04:29:50 UTC 2002


> Just moving mail to /dev/null from user space. What's wrong with that?

I don't use procmail, but I think what Keith's referring to is that when
you use a ":" procmail creates a lock file to enforce mutual exclusion on
the sink file. So like, if your syntax is:

> > > :0:
> > > *^Content.*multipart/alternative
> > > /dev/null

then /dev/null is unnecessarily being locked between writes.

Hope this helps (and is correct)

Tyler


On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote:

>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Keith wrote:
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > :0:
> > > *^Content.*multipart/alternative
> > > /dev/null
> >
> > >
> > Thou shall not lock /dev/null
>
> Just moving mail to /dev/null from user space. What's wrong with that?
>
> Harmless or am I missing something?
>
>
> --
> Neil Anuskiewicz
>
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