Re: Exim misconfiguration ?
Fred <frederic.bonnard@cirad.fr> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending
> mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail.
> After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many
> mails, and exim is launched thousand times.
> So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) are running
> and taking all the resources ; I even lose my read/write access to
> files!
> After restarting, I have to wait the number of exim process to decrease.
> Is there a way to configure exim's behaviour differently ( for ex. to
> start only one process ) ?
If you run exim as a daemon rather than from /etc/inetd.conf (by
removing the smtp line from this file), that should help, I think.
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