Sendmail Flood and limiting sendmail processes

From: Patrick Farley <farley_at_Manassas1.TDS-GN.LMCO.COM>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:52:54 -0400

A user account on our machine will on occasion recieve
hundreds of messages in a few short minutes.
This account processes the mail with procmail.

When this happens the machine processing grinds
to a halt and the time it takes to process a single
messages is up around 1 minute. When there are only
50 or so remaining the machine will process several a second.

Any thoughts on how to limit the number of sendmail sessions
or the number of procmail process?

-Patrick
Received on Thu Jun 05 1997 - 20:06:35 NZST

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