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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