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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:46:59 +0100 (MET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procmail problems
Message-ID:  <199711061146.MAA06406@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199711061011.LAA24917@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Nov 6, 97 11:11:58 am"

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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> On one of our servers we have replaced "mail" with procmail, mainly to
> have the possibility of putting mailboxes in user directories instead
> of having 3000+ files in /var/mail . But for some reason, procmail
> quite often starts growing until it exhausts the swap space causing
> itself and a bunch of other processes to get killed.
> 
> Are there known problem in procmail, and is there any simple
> alternative for achieving our main goal (putting mailboxes into users'
> directories instead of /var/mail) ?

Modify sendmail.cf to put the mail in the users home, one of my
clients do just that, works fine...

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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