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Re: mutt -- slow on send



On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:51:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I'm noticing in the past 24-48 hours that Mutt seems to have turned into
> a dog <g> on 'send'.  There's a noticeable delay -- call it 2-3 seconds,
> when I submit a message to queue.  Not sure if this is mutt or exim or
> another part of the process, and not quite sure where to start looking.
> System load hasn't changed notably.  Confusion reigns.

any chance you've munged your .procmailrc or /etc/aliases
lately? i did a few days ago, and as a result i compressed my
server under a heavy load of exim-recursion loops ad infinitum.
load average was up to 36.2 !!

i have a secondary login that i forward stuff to as a
fall-through default, and i'd inserted an alias for "*" to be
for my primary login. so round and round it went...

it brought even the command line to a crawl -- i couldn't stand
the wait even for "man exim" to figure out how to kill the
suckers. so i renamed my ~/.procmailrc file and all the dust
finally settled, after which i figured out the snag (the *
alias) and then restored my .procmailrc.

i'm feeling much better, now.

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