I've got a problem. I'm trying to filter GIANT email messages to an imap folder. Up until about 200MB everything worked splendidly. Now my setup (was 1.3.5, now is 1.5) will choke on the mail message, and it'll leave the unfinished mail message in the Maildir/tmp directory. This fills up my drive rather quickly. :)

I expect its the "Watchdog Timer" that is causing the problem. I only expect it to get worse as the mail messages get larger.

Alternately, it could be preline that doesn't like the large messages. Can I compile Maildrop such that I don't have to use preline anymore?

The best thing to do would to have ripmime process the message and avoid the maildir altogether. Would I do something like

if (/From:.*whoever@somewhere\.com/) { to "| ripmime -i - -d somedir" }

I still think the watchdog timer would have a problem.

Any suggestions?