From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 6 03:48:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA09236 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 03:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA09209 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 03:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id MAA06406; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:46:59 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199711061146.MAA06406@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: procmail problems In-Reply-To: <199711061011.LAA24917@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Nov 6, 97 11:11:58 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:46:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..