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Re: Has anyone tried 'formail -n <processes>' with success?

2004-02-22 12:28:11
Gary asked,

I tried running my SA markup extractor as follows:
  formail -n 4 -s procmail $HOME/scripts/remove_sa_markup.rc < spam.mbox

What actually happened is that the system became swamped by hundreds of
procmail processes, so I had to kill the job.

1. Does that rcfile clone procmail at any point, or reinvoke procmail recursively?

2. What happens if you don't use -n at all and let formail wait for each procmail to end before forking the next?

3. What happens if you type "-n4" without the space (shouldn't make a difference, but I'm placing no bets)?


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