Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/26/09:14:52
Jason Tishler wrote:
>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.
>
>
I've read all man page and all related manpages. The procmail manpage
states only that:
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.
>>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?
>
>
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.
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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