Re: [Fetchmail-users] delay interval

[piequiex <pie...@ny...>]

> El 2017-01-04 a las 17:24 -0000, piequiex escribi??:
> 
> > The problem is I loss all messages, except first two. They all must be parsed
> > with script, which I execute from procmailrc.
> > 
> > I have discovered that all messages will delivered in case when delay
> > interval present in loop. For example:
> > 
> > for msg in file.???; do
> > cat $msg | script;
> > sleep 1;
> > done
> 
> Probably your script is exiting too early, before it finishes processing.

Yes. External application, executed from a script, sometimes terminates with
the strange error - "Cannot allocate memory". This does not happen in example
above.

> Depending on how you do things, procmail can be called in parallel by
> several emails, so you either change your script to be able to cope with
> that situation, or tell the other software to only send one.
> 
> For example, if you are using postfix in the mix, you can tell it to process
> one email at a time for local delivery (slowing things down a lot).
> 
> You can also use lock files in procmail so that a section blocks if a
> parallel process is already in there.

Thanks for advices.

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