On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:36:37AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an email account on a separate mail server, and I want to keep > the mail I get at that account separate from the mail I get directly on > my Linux machine. So I use fetchmail to get mail from the mail server, > then procmail to deliver it to mbox. After I fetch the mail, it can > take a very long time, sometimes up to 10 minutes, for it to be > delivered to mbox.
Perhaps it's sitting in exim's mail queue? exim will only deliver 100 messages at once in the default Debian dialup configuration. > PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists > #DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox # completely optional > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log # recommended > > :0 > *^To:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mbox [...] You should really have some locking here! As it stands, procmail may corrupt mbox if more than one instance of procmail happens to run simultaneously. To fix this, change ":0" to ":0:" throughout. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
