> 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. I have removed exim from inetd.conf, and there are still many exim process running....
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