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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:55:38 -0700
From: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Fetchmail and Procmail
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Jason Tishler wrote:

>George,
>
>On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:14:36AM -0700, George wrote:
>
>>Jason Tishler wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:19:26AM -0700, George wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>See the procmail man page.
>>>
>>>
>>I've read all man page and all related manpages.
>>
>
>Hmm...
>
>What about the following?
>
>    $ man procmail
>    [snip]
>
>    Suspicious rcfile "x"  The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient
>                           or root, the file was world writable, or the
>                           directory that contained it was  world
>                           writable,  or this  was the default rcfile
>                           ($HOME/.procmailrc) and either it was group
>                           writable or the directory that contained it
>                           was group writable (the rcfile was not used).
>
Ok. I am thoroughly embarassed.  Maybe instead of reading the man page 
several times, I should have read a single time but more carefully? :-(

>
>>>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>As for testing on a Unix box, I'm in that category of Cygwin users who
>>need to make something work in a Windows environment.  My question
>>relates more to whether I should be disppointed or satisfied with the
>>results.
>>
>
>I suggested a comparison to help you find the "bottleneck."  If the cost
>of the fork (of procmail) is the issue, then Cygwin is slowing you down.
>If the network speed or the way that fetchmail interacts with the mail
>server is the issue, then it's not.  Note these are just some ideas...
>I will leave it to you to dig deeper, if interested.
>
>
I'm confident the fetchmail part of the equation is not the problem, and 
as my procmail recipes are minimal I'll have to assume, at least for the 
moment, that the forking is the issue. 

Thanks again for the comments, Jason.  They've been helpful.




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