mail processing delay

[Kerry Hoath]

Are you running an MTA? If so which one?
Couple of things to check:

If running exim or similar it will only deliver a certain number of 
messages simultaniously.

You can check the queue to make sure the messages aren't sticking in the 
queue, a queue-runner should execute every 15 minutes or so and pick 
these up.


Note with procmail that you do not need to lock a maildir, :0: can be 
replaced with :0 if memory serves.
I usually shovel messages direct to maildirs with safecat and that goes 
extremely quickly but each to their own.
regards, kerry.

On 21/01/2011 6:44 PM, Keith Barrett wrote:
> Have any of you experienced the following:
>
> Using debian squeeze, fetchmail, procmail and mutt.  Using maildir.
>
> Issue is that if there are say more than about 20 messages when I run fetchmail, I am not seeing them in mutt.
>
> However, they do show up sometimes several hours later.
>
> I run fetchmail before starting mutt.
>
> Any thoughts before I go digging through logs?
>
>