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Re: Procmail with huge messages (was Re: Can there be rules that only parse the headers?)

1997-10-14 09:50:53
        Author:        era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi>
        Original-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:09:34 +0300 (EET DST)
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<199710130609(_dot_)JAA19818(_at_)kontti(_dot_)Helsinki(_dot_)FI>

I still think it's kind of embarrassing that Procmail would not be
able to cope with big messages. If the normal local MDA could handle
it, why can't Procmail?

Procmail blew chunks all over a 9meg email I received this weekend.

Sucked all available CPU and swapspace (about 250megs and a P-133).

Got lots of duplicate emails and lost emails in the resultant disk crash(es)  
which required manual fsck-ing.

TjL