Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Reichert <reichert@oneida.internet.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Message-ID: <199606101718.NAA27079@oneida.internet.com>
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>From: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) > > There is too much noise, I think I need a straight jacket! > > I came back to my email from the weekend, and I had over 400 hundred emails. > All this is just two days! Most are from the FreeBSD mailing lists. > I can't keep up with this! There needs to be a better way. I must admit > some of my problems with managing my email are due to the tools I am unfortunately > forced to use. (Hey Terry, remember GroupWise under Unix?) For those > of you who have not experienced GroupWise, take my recommendation DON'T! > > What are the thoughts on breaking this stuff out of mail lists and into > news groups? (At least there I can use kill files to eliminate the noise.) > Or, must I suffer this fate? Any suggestions on how to manage this much > email? Jordan, how do you deal with all this traffic? Actaally, I've got a mail-list management issue that is certainly interesting: Long ago, I took to using procmail to break out my mail upon delivery to various folders. I noted that several times _daily_ that procmail was dropping core. Well, I hacked procmail to requeue the mail upon a segfault, and after a few days, guess what I found? Seventy-nine mail messages from hackers, bugs, and stable ! I haven't gone pawing through debuggers to see what the issue is, but will have to if I want my mail to be delivered. Have anyone else seen wierd behaviour from this? I note that even with with all of the debugging stuff turned on, the resulting core file died way out in a library somewhere... For what it's worth, I'm running 2.1R and procmail v3.10.
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