It's due to your MTA. If you're using exim, look into the `smtp_accept_queue_per_connection' setting in /etc/exim.conf. Setting it to `0' will cause all messages to be delivered immediately. I'm not sure what the equivalent setting is for the other MTAs.
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:40:48PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > I just signed up for this listserv, and fetchmail saw/downloaded 76 > messages. When I went to Mutt, there were only 10 in the Mutt index pager! > Huh? Even weirder, about 10 minutes later, Mutt reported I new mail in my > mailbox (I was already off-line) and the rest of those messages fetchmail > saw magically appeared. > > What happened? Did I swamp fetchmail and it needed to catch its breath?
