On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:47:24PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Have you watched the exim log (tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog) when > fetchmail fetches your mail? If not, perhaps exim is doing some sort > of network lookup that delays it? > I did that and also monitored procmail.log at the same time. What I found was that after the mail made it to my machine via fetchmail, I would get an entry in exim/mainlog. But it wouldn't show up on procmail.log for a long time, and I don't even think that it is being sent to procmail right away. Later on, I get another entry for the same messge in exim/mainlog, and then it goes to procmail.log. So it looks to me like it is sitting around in exim for several minutes. Here is an example of a couple of lines from the exim/mainlog file:
2002-11-07 11:21:51 189sDv-0005au-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=otte (localhost) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=6906 id=p05111a0ab9f066d9996b@[128.114.181.73] 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 => ric@otte R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=smtp.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35] 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 Completed And here is another entry in exim/mainlog for the same message, 11 minutes later: 2002-11-07 12:33:13 189tKz-0006St-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=cats-mx2.ucsc.edu (ucsc.edu) [128.114.129.35] P=esmtp S=7277 id=p05111a0ab9f066d9996b@[128.114.181.73] 2002-11-07 12:33:13 189tKz-0006St-00 => ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe 2002-11-07 12:33:13 189tKz-0006St-00 Completed I do not really know what all of the stuff in the entries mean, but it does look like it is only being sent to procmail 11 minutes after it first got to exim. I'm not sure what it was doing in the meantime. What makes it even more puzzling, is if I take out the .procmailrc file, then there is no delay (but the mail isn't sorted). Any insight? Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
