This one time, at band camp, Ric Otte said:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:47:24PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> > 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 did that and also monitored procmail.log at the same time. What I
> found was that after the mail made it to my machine via fetchmail, I
> would get an entry in exim/mainlog. But it wouldn't show up on
> procmail.log for a long time, and I don't even think that it is being
> sent to procmail right away. Later on, I get another entry for the same
> messge in exim/mainlog, and then it goes to procmail.log. So it looks
> to me like it is sitting around in exim for several minutes. Here is an
> example of a couple of lines from the exim/mainlog file:
>
> 2002-11-07 11:21:51 189sDv-0005au-00 <= Annem@cats.ucsc.edu H=otte
> (localhost) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=6906
> id=p05111a0ab9f066d9996b@[128.114.181.73]
> 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 => ric@otte R=smarthost
> T=remote_smtp H=smtp.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35]
> 2002-11-07 11:21:53 189sDv-0005au-00 Completed
This is exim emailing the message off to ric@otte, using smtp.ucsc.edu
as a smart host. Do you have a rule in a .forward or something telling
exim to do this? This is the problem here - there is no delay on the
local system, but a delay until the next fetchmail run picks up your
message from cats-mx2.ucsc.edu. I think you ned to look into either a
.forward rule, something strange in your .procmail, or perhaps exim
doesn't understand the hostname of your box, and is treating that
address as remote.
>
> I do not really know what all of the stuff in the entries mean, but it
> does look like it is only being sent to procmail 11 minutes after it
> first got to exim. I'm not sure what it was doing in the meantime.
> What makes it even more puzzling, is if I take out the .procmailrc file,
> then there is no delay (but the mail isn't sorted). Any insight?
> Thanks,
>
> Ric
Steve
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