Re: procmail file locking broken?
Robert L. Harris(Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net) is reported to have said:
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>
> I just got a couple calls from some people I work with and have been
> bouncing emails it seems. I think I tracked it down to a problem with
> procmail trying to lock files. In my procmail log I get this:
>
> procmail: No match on "charset=.*(koi8|windows-125[15]|big-?5|gb2312)"
> procmail: Match on ! "^Content-Type: message/"
> procmail: No match on ! "^Content-Type: multipart/"
> procmail: Locking "/tmp/.msgid.lock"
> procmail: Executing
> "/usr/bin/crm,-u,/home/nomad/crm114,/usr/share/crm114/mailfilter.crm"
> procmail: No match on "charset=.*(koi8|windows-125[15]|big-?5|gb2312)"
> procmail: Match on ! "^Content-Type: message/"
> procmail: No match on ! "^Content-Type: multipart/"
> procmail: Locking "/tmp/.msgid.lock"
> procmail: [1756] Tue Jul 27 10:24:21 2004
> procmail: Locking "/tmp/.msgid.lock"
> procmail: [1756] Tue Jul 27 10:24:29 2004
> procmail: Locking "/tmp/.msgid.lock"
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>
> The last 5 lines will continue a while and as more mail comes in, more
> lock request are added in. If I do a "ps" I can see the procmails start
> adding up until I have 80 or so and things start failing. The procmail
> line generating this is:
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> :0fw: /tmp/.msgid.lock
> | /usr/bin/crm -u /home/nomad/crm114 /usr/share/crm114/mailfilter.crm
>
> I changed it to "/tmp/.msgid.lock" from ".msgid.lock" thinking it might
> be related to an NFS issue but the behaviour is the same.
>
>
> Any thoughts? The spam is killing me.
Yes, install mailfilter and don't download the spam in the first place.
I 'was' using procmail for that but with sooo much spam coming in I
decided to remove it at the pop server rather then download it. I
have not looked back as I now download only 3-4 spam msgs per day.
wt
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