Twice in the last few days I have had serious mail problems.
It stemmed from the fact that sendmail was not running for several hours,
and then a lot of mail tried to download at the same time.
I would see things like this:
procmail: Failed forking "formail"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
/bin/sh: fork failed - too many processes
Why is procmail forking so much?
Is it the amount of messages being processed at once? If so, how can I limit
this?
I use a global lockfile on my .procmailrc -- could that be making it worse?
(Is there a way to adjust sendmail to help alleviate this problem?)
Any suggestions appreciated
TjL