Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!syd From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Problems with filter Message-ID: <1991Feb6.173024.28575@DSI.COM> Date: 6 Feb 91 17:30:24 GMT References: <4002@stl.stc.co.uk> <1991Feb6.141715.25929@vitro.com> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 23 fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) writes: >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 -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235