On Thursday, February 14 at 09:50 AM, quoth Bill Cole:
I'm curious: do you have examples of mail software that doesn't use the timestamp? (I could see some run-once script not doing it, but I'd be surprised if widely-used software didn't.)
The procmailrc man page says that MSGPREFIX defaults to 'msg.' but it is not clear to me whether MSGPREFIX is used for Maildir delivery or just for MH delivery. I've played it safe and use "MSGPREFIX=
date +%s" but maybe that's not needed...
MSGPREFIX is only used if procmail is delivering to a directory that hasn't been indicated as either an MH folder or a Maildir by a suffix. In other words, if you tell it to deliver to "foo/", it'll use the official maildir methodology. If you tell it to deliver to "foo/.", it'll use the official MH methodology. If you tell it to deliver to "foo", and foo happens to be a directory, then it'll use MSGPREFIX. If you tell it to deliver to "foo" and foo is a file, then it'll use an mbox methodology.
~Kyle
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