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A bazillion processes

2004-04-16 16:00:35
I really wanted the subject to be "HOLY SMOKES!!!!" but I guess that
wouldn't have been all that informative. :)

I tried grepping a whitelist.  It seemed to work fine in the sandbox; but
when I tried it live I wound up with a bazillion procmail/sendmail
processes and my machine slowed to the point of being totally
unresponsive. I also started getting a LOT of errors when using fetchmail
- and getting no mail.

Here's the recipe.  I'm obviously doing something I shouldn't be.

============ whitelist.rc ================

:0
* ^From[        ]\/[^ ]+
* ? fgrep -i "$MATCH" whitelist.txt
{
   :0
   * ^(To|Cc):[         ](_dot_)*fleet(_at_)epix\(_dot_)net
   epix

   :0
   * ^(To|Cc):[         ](_dot_)*fleet(_at_)teachout\(_dot_)org
   teachout

   :0
   * ^(To|Cc):[         ](_dot_)*fleet(_at_)paxp\(_dot_)com
   paxp
}

========================================

The whitelist.txt is 7932 bytes and contains 160 e-mail addresses in the
form of:

john(_dot_)relative(_at_)domain(_dot_)com                        #John/Jane 
Relative

(ie, standard e-mail addresses; but each with a #note)

whitelist.txt is in $PMDIR.




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