Re: [OT] general mail questions
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:53:17PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few questions about how mail works. I'm using mutt with exim
> on Lenny, which I use to access my pop mail account. I've noticed that
> my messages sometimes are a long time getting from the server to mutt.
> For example, if I check my email via the webmail webpage without
> starting fetchmail, I can see that I have messages waiting. If I then
> start fetchmail and refresh the webpage I see that the messages have
> been removed from the server. However, the messages don't appear in
> mutt for several minutes. Even if I restart fetchmail when I know
> there are messages waiting for me, it may still take 10 or 15 minutes
> before they actually show up in mutt. Where are the messages after
> they get pulled from the server and before they show up on my laptop?
pop server ->fetchmail->exim->mail queue->exim->procmail->some mailbox
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A B
'A' happends when you run 'fetchmail'. After 'A', 'B' happends. After
'B' finishes, all your messages are ready to be read in Mutt. If you do
not wait for 'B' to finish, then you will get 'new mail' while in Mutt.
>
If you 'tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog' before 'fetchmail', you will see
this happen.
-K
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