Re: annoying mutt problem
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:45:17AM -0700, Sean wrote:
> After fetching my mail from my isp's pop server, mutt usually only
> displays the first 10 or so messages. The others although fetched by
> fetchmail, don't display in my mailbox for a few minutes, according to
> mutt. If I have about 50 or so, I can quit mutt, and go back in to see
> all the messages. However if there are 200 or so, like today, it takes
> 2 or so minutes and quitting and restarting mutt before I see them all.
> What's appening here? Can I fix that?
> Sean
I had that too once with a large batch of mail. I think the problem is
that some of the messages are still "in the system". E.g. they may
still be getting processed by procmail or spamassassin. You can try
using `ps' to see which processes are running. Maybe that helps.
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