On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:04:26PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> I got some of the missing linux kernel archives, but they are in mbox format. I
> know I can use formail to split them out, but last time I did that from a
> "remote machine" formail "killed" the box, too many open AF_UNIX connection.
> 
> (Aside, people who said they would send me their old posts, please still do it,
> I'll remove duplicates via Message-IDs).
> 
> Think I was smart, I moved archives to the listserv, so I could inject the old
> message locally, but that gave me VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached.
> 
> Since the was the tclug mbox and it was small compared to the linux-kernel mbox
> I'm sure I'll run into these problems again.
> 
> Anyway to make formail wait like 5s between sends?
> 
> This is what I tried last time:
> 
> cat f1 | formail -d -n 1 -s /usr/lib/sendmail linux-kernel at lists.real-time.com
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Pipe it though procmail and put a delay and a file in the "procmailrc" file you
specify in the procmail command line.

UNIX: Easy things easy and hard things possible.(*)

florin

(*) Actual slogan "borrowed" from Perl.

-- 

"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is."

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