From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 6 05:11:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA12444 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 05:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA12435 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 05:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id NAA06282; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:10:05 GMT Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:10:05 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Luigi Rizzo cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail problems In-Reply-To: <199711061011.LAA24917@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ > -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F 2-5-12, Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766