tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) (01/25/91)
I use the filter tool provided with the elm package on a Convex C201 running Convex OS (i.e. something between UNIX BSD 4.2 and 4.3 as far as I understand) in the following way : "| /usr/local/bin/filter -o .filter-errors" in my .forward file and the filter-rules in $HOME/.elm/filter-rules Everything works fine except when, occasionnally, **LOCAL** mail is not immediatly delivered by /usr/lib/sendmail because of too high load average. In this case, as usually, sendmail spools the mail in /usr/spool/mqueue and tries to process it later. **BUT** then, the mail never gets filtered : all I get is a .filter-errors file in /usr/spool/mqueue (!!!!) with the following content : filter (paris): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (weinh): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (wrobel): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! Note that these are always local users trying to reach me via mail. I noted this problem only recently, because 1) somebody told me he sent me a mail I never got 2) fortunately, it does not happen that often that our convex is so loaded that sendmail rejects local mail. Does somebody have an explanation and/or a cure for this quite annoying problem (it means in fact that I have lost the corresponding mails, doesn't it ?) Thanks in advance for any help/advise. -- Karl Tombre - INRIA Lorraine / CRIN EMAIL : tombre@loria.crin.fr - POST : BP 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France