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Re: procmail invocation via postfix fails on large mbox files

2001-07-23 00:19:22
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:30:08AM -0400, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
Either way, I got my verbose info:
procmail: Error while writing to "lfsdiscuss"
procmail: Unlocking "lfsdiscuss.lock"
 
The first thing that comes to mind: permission problems:
-rw-r--r--    1 maillist maillist 52011055 Jul 22 22:04 lfsdiscuss
This is exactly like the other mailinglists which work fine. Keep in

I guess procmail is reading the whole mbox file into memory before
appending the mail. It could be a problem with the settings of ulimit.
Look with ulimit how much memory a process is allowed to consume.

 Werner
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