Re: procmail slow email delivery

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Ric" == Ric Otte <otte@CATS.UCSC.EDU> writes:

    Ric> Thanks for the suggestion about locks on procmailrc.  I
    Ric> changed them.  But I don't think the slowness problem is due
    Ric> to too many messages in exim's queue; I check my mail
    Ric> frequently, and usually get less than 5 messages at a time.
    Ric> But I'll reread the exim man page.  Thanks,

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'm guessing. I've never seen this problem before.

/Shyamal