Hello,
Has anyone done any work as a set of unofficial patches to procmail for
using disk as a temporary message cache, and working on the message on
disk instead of in memory?
More importantly, the last time I delved into the procmail sources
(shudder), it seems to me that the idea struck me as non-trivial. Can
anyone comment on whether time would be better spent engineering a new
delivery agent from scratch?
Btw, I know that some people feel strongly that procmail has no place
making heroic attempts to worry about memory consumption; I, as a system
administrator of a heavily-used mail server, -must- consider this problem,
since restricting based on message size isn't an option...not every user
uses procmail, and some people legitimately transport large PDFs and Word
documents as a part of their regular business day.
I'm not interested in arguing the merits of doing it; I'm just curious if
someone has already done some work in this area, or if it's even worth
doing on the current codebase.
Thanks in advance for any pointers. :-)
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