Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many > mails, and exim is launched thousand times. > So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) are running > and taking all the resources ; I even lose my read/write access to > files! > After restarting, I have to wait the number of exim process to decrease. > Is there a way to configure exim's behaviour differently ( for ex. to > start only one process ) ?
If you run exim as a daemon rather than from /etc/inetd.conf (by removing the smtp line from this file), that should help, I think. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
