-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Adams
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:09 AM
To: "Procmail Listserv"
Subject: egrep: Regular expression too big
Below are some relevant lines from my procmail logfile.
I do not understand why I am getting the error message
"egrep: Regular expression too big". Any ideas?
Sounds like egrep exhausted its resources when constructing
patterns from the lines in the -f <regex> file. In some
implementations, the memory used for patterns is limited
to 64K bytes. Files much bigger than 10K bytes will cause
egrep to choke.
Which OS/version, egrep/version are you using?
If you're running a fairly modern implmentation of egrep,
then it is possible that the amount of memory (the ulimit)
assigned to programs run from the MTA (eg, sendmail) is limited,
and you may need to find a way to increase that limit.
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