Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!vitro!fsb From: fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Problems with filter Message-ID: <1991Feb6.141715.25929@vitro.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 14:17:15 GMT References: <4002@stl.stc.co.uk> Organization: Vitro Corporation Lines: 16 I setup filter to send uuencoded mail I get to get posted in a special news group. I do this so I can use nn to decode them easily. Anyway, what happens is I have smail3 running and I set up the .forward file to run filter and then in the filter-rules file have a line something like if (subject "uuencoded") then "exec inews -h -n mailftp" The problem comes in when this does this with a file that has like 100 parts, the sendmail and filter and all start up about a million processes and the machine gets deadlocked with too many processes running and some becomming zombies that never get released. Maybe there is a better way of doing this. For now I will remove filtering. -- Steve Brailsford (fsb@vitro.com) _____ Usenet: uupsi!vitro!fsb \/itro Corporation Compu$erve: 73427,1466 14000 Georgia Ave. Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906