Re: [fetchmail-users] more clever resource limitations

[Jakob H. <jh...@pl...>]

Greg Lindahl wrote:

> use sendmail -> procmail -> spamassassin, so using sendmail's load

Why don't you use fetchmail -> procmail -> spamassassin (mda option)? This
way only one message would be delivered at one time and there's no need to
fix other component's issues in fetchmail.
Speaking of, sendmail surely has some mechanisms to queue messages and
deliver only message per time, which would also fix your problem. Or
configure procmail to use some locking to only start one spamassassin
process.

> I worked around this by adding expunge 1 (which since I'm using POP3
> is similar to using a fetchlimit), which slows things down enough by
> re-logging in repeatedly (wastefully) to avoid the problem. But this
> doesn't work well when I'm on the road and have a bad network
> connection; it slows things down quite a lot, especially when I have a

By "bad" you mean, it breaks often? Then expunge 1 is a good idea, else
you could be downloading messages more than once.