-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:27:39PM -0700, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: >Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It only delivers the mail when other mail comes in? If so, is there >> any way to get around it? It's been 20 minutes since I confirmed >> it. Had I not sent this e-mail to the list, I don't know when I >> would have gotten it. > >It sounds like a problem with your mail system. If you see a delay >like this again, do a 'mailq' and see if it is sitting in the queue. >Normally it should be delivered immediately, but there might be >something with your system that is causing a delay. > >I'll go out on a limb and make a guess that you are using the Postfix >that shipped with OS X? The reason I say this is that I noticed the >exact behavior you describe with the default Postfix on Panther. Mail >would often sit there in the queue until a subsequent message was >sent, and then all would be delivered, as if the new message woke the >queue up or something. Very strange.
Many moons ago I used qmail. Since I was also lazy, I would copy my compiled qmail installation from one machine to another. After a couple of these I found that qmail would not delivery immediately; messages would linger. I eventually figured out that my copy had clobbered the permissions and/or ownership of some file in the installation. There was a named pipe that qmail would use to signal itself when there was a delivery, and I had rendered that conduit inaccessible to the programs that needed it. As a result, things would go into the queue and stay there until they were noticed. I don't know if this is the problem or not, but I thought it worth sharing. - -- Kyle Hasselbacher Disclaimer: Do not use with [EMAIL PROTECTED] other medications. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUfI310sofiqUxIQRAniSAKCNp0jM/rgD/asVtxmdoBum8bXR5gCgtG61 vGIMoDbxuQMIYWhATfi9XKQ= =wB4R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
