Thanks folks -- the confirmation that I was on the right path was a big help.
The suggestions to "do it right" were well intentioned but impractical since I didn't want to take over support for TWO major software packages (or either one for that matter.) A small patch seems to work. (Keep the bytes spooled and send that number rather than whatever stat was showing.) Since the bytes spooled to the file are what gets sent to spamd that seems to be an accurate number. I had a little trouble at first since it seemed the file was cached (if it was "written" more than once it really was only written to disk ONE TIME -- so zero'ing the counter in the wrong place was hosing my first naive attempt. -- Herb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
