[imapfilter-devel] error: another imapfilter is running with pid 7848

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:37:54PM +0100, jan wrote:
> hello
> 
> i don't know how you are using imapfilter. i have integrated it in my 
> .forward file on the mailserver. i'm very glad about this tool and it 
> does it's task perfectly. but sometimes, when a mail is arriving, the 
> following error raises:
> 
> Command output: imapfilter: another imapfilter is running with pid 7848
> 
> the error ist not the problem, but an errormessate is sended to the sender. 
> but the mail still arrives. 
> how can i suppress this mail, or this errormessage, or better, why can't 
> imapfilter run twice?

What kind of error message is send to the sender?

Imapfilter cannot run twice, because, for example, there will be
problems with two clients trying to make changes to the same mailbox in
the mail server.

I suggest that you run imapfilter in daemon mode.  You can specify
an interval of 300 or 600 seconds, so your messages will be processed
continuously and periodically.