Jason Tishler wrote:
I've read all man page and all related manpages. The procmail manpage states only that:George,
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:19:26AM -0700, George wrote:
1. I'm getting an error about a "suspicious ~/.procmailrc" file. I'm guessing this is a permissions problem. If that's the case, could someone let me know what the correct permissions should be? For the moment, using a '/etc/procmailrc' seems to be the only thing that works.
See the procmail man page.
If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command line, proc- mail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc, interpret commands from /etc/procmailrc (if present).
What I'm experiencing is that ~/.procmailrc is ignored/complained about whether /etc/procmailrc exists or not.
I'm confident procmail is an excellent solution, but using the rate I'm getting, 30,000 messages that would translate into 17 hours of processing; given the span of a month, that leaves plenty of time to read all 30,000 of them. :-) I'm wondering if whether the 2 seconds/message average is normal, or indicates a problem with my setup.2. Procmail seems to be rather slow. I don't know whether this is normal, but I've timed one mailbox download and it's taking on average 10 minutes to process 317 messages (2MB total)
It's fast enough for me, 10,000 - 30,000 messages per month -- even on a PIII 500 MHz. Have you tried your test case on a Unix box? If so, is it significantly faster?
As for testing on a Unix box, I'm in that category of Cygwin users who need to make something work in a Windows environment. My question relates more to whether I should be disppointed or satisfied with the results.
Also, is procmail supposed to be called for each individual message?
Yes.
Thanks.
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