Subject: Re: Sendmail/Procmail question: too many delivery processes
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/02/2004 09:21:41
In article <20040401205850.GA22884@slab.wireless.ubc.ca>,
	Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> When I fetchmail, I have dozens of procmail processes spawned, and
> under a big load of messages this will exhaust the process limits.
> E.g.:
> 
>     $ ls
>     bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>     $ 

You can configure "fetchmail" to call "procmail" directly like this:

poll mail.do.main [..] mda "/usr/pkg/bin/procmail -f %F"

This way it should fetch and filter one e-mail after the other.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/