[Esd-l] Making procmail play "nice"

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> Some of my clients who are using John's sanitizer (and are also active 
> mailing list participants) are being bombarded with mass quantities of 
> the Swen worm. Unfortunately, the overhead of running Procmail and Perl 
> on so many huge messages is bringing the mail servers to their knees.
> 
> John, have you considered adding an option that "nices down" Perl and 
> Procmail so that other tasks can run?

No, I haven't, but I will take it into consideration.

A better way to approach the problem is to develop a good local-rules
signature so that the identification is done in the lightweight
procmail engine, and the perl script is bypassed entirely.

You might want to try adding the rule that was just posted, it sounds
like it'll reduce your load by 80% or better.

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