On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:09 -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > I'm seeing hundreds od these maeeages on my pop3 server. Any ideas what > they mean? Am I bouncing messages from a redhat list or something like > that? > > douglas 24858 24854 0 12:06:55 ? 0:06 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 11957 11952 0 21:05:43 ? 0:00 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 9429 9112 0 20:48:57 ? 0:00 procmail -f > lvlug-bounces@xxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 6770 6768 0 20:30:35 ? 0:01 procmail -f > scottphillipson@xxxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 17518 17517 0 18:37:33 ? 0:02 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 13618 13617 0 06:19:08 ? 0:10 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 20845 20844 0 18:54:49 ? 0:02 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 4635 4634 0 20:17:02 ? 0:01 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 11557 11556 0 21:02:32 ? 0:00 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas > douglas 6528 6524 0 20:28:31 ? 0:01 procmail -f > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx -Y -a -d douglas This is procmail delivering lots of mail for user douglas. If your .procmailrc is complex, this may take quite some time per message. A useful thing to do would be to have it handle high-volume lists like this one as early as possible in your .procmailrc so that it doesn't spend much time processing other rules for lots of messages. Given the wide range of times for the processes above (some delivery attempts have been going on for many hours), it looks like you might have some file locking problems. Have you been receiving mail OK throughout this period? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
