This has happened a few times: when a message is retrieved from the
upstream POP server with a large attachment (100K), my local copy of SA
takes 50 seconds or so to process it. I am using Procmail to filter
deliver the messages locally -- not passing them on to another MDA.
During the 50-second processing time, fetchmail is holding the
connection to the POP server open, and the POP server times out before
SA finishes. As a result, the POP server is never told that the message
was successfully downloaded, so the message stays on the server and is
downloaded again and again and again. I just had to manually intervene
after a particular message was retrieved 974 times.
What is the best way to deal with this? Is there a setting to force SA
to return a result after a certain number of seconds, whether it's done
processing or not? Or to speed up processing of these large messages? Or
to check if a particular message has already been seen? Or to solve the
issue in some other clever way; perhaps a Procmail workaround?
I am running SA 2.54 on a Mandrake 8.2 machine.
I can attach a sample of a message that caused this problem if that
would be helpful.
Help is very much appreciated.
Paul
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