question about email delivery triggered by resent thread on musings

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

I run a Lenny/gnome desktop. I use mutt to read mail. Emacs is invoked
by mutt to compose mail. I do delivery from my ISP by invoking
fetchmail from a command line in a gnome-terminal window. When
fetchmail terminates, I run Mutt in the same window. I have noticed
that there often seem to be fewer new emails to read than, it seemed,
were downloaded according to fetchmail progress messages, but I wasn't
sure until my experience this morning with the musings thread. When I
viewed it, about 2 hours ago, there were only two replies (Ron
Johnson and (OP) Robert Holtman). I started to compose my own reply,
and noticed in the emacs window that the quoted original in Robert's
message was nested much deeper than two levels. How could this happen?

I think it has something to do with Procmail. I run Procmail to
distribute emails by topic/sender/etc. When fetchmail terminates,
procmail is still running, I suspect. Is this what is happening?  Is
there some way that I can determine when procmail has finished
delivering? i.e. some email queue that is filled by fetchmail and
drained by procmail? or some other trick?

Also while researching the situation for this email, I notice that
Robert Holtzman's reply to Ron Johnson's email has a time-stamp that
is *prior* to the time-stamp of Ron's email. A reply that is sent
before the referenced email?? How is this possible? Maybe, because
they live in different time zones, and Mutt displays time-stamps for
the senders time-zone, not my time-zone. Is this so? Can it be
changed?

Thanks,
-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net