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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:10:05 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procmail problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.971106220918.6254A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199711061011.LAA24917@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luigi Rizzo 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) ?

Check out the FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org.

Regards,


Mike

> 	Thanks
> 	Luigi
> -----------------------------+--------------------------------------
> Luigi Rizzo                  |  Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
> email: luigi@iet.unipi.it    |  Universita' di Pisa
> tel: +39-50-568533           |  via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
> fax: +39-50-568522           |  http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
> _____________________________|______________________________________
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