Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes.
> It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separate exim process
> (which I hadn't expected) and procmail process (this I had).
I don't send fetchmail's output through exim, I just put this in
.fetchmailrc
defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"
which serializes mail delivery. So instead of hitting user limits, it
takes a while to go through morning mail... maybe I should try
spamd....
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