Nataraj:
> Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. I've narrowed the problem
> down further, though it is not solved yet. It does not appear to be
> specific to postfix. I've written a simple program with a select
> statement that delays 10 seconds when run on any of my own computers,
> but when run on the virtual machine hosting my mailserver it returns
> immediately. I'm suspecting a vmware related problem, but I don't know
> yet...
Accurate time keeping is one of the dirty secrets of virtualization.
Wietse
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf
