Hi,
Actually, some of the delay is there by design ;-). You see,
if a flurry of messages comes in (like, when one runs popclient),
then we don't want to spawn as many copies of mailagent as there are
messages (well, perl is a rather large binary). What is done is that
a number of copies of the c filter (very small footprint,
comparatively) are run, and they all synchronize with each other (for
example for writing to the log file), but only one mailagent will be
started (maybe after all the messages are read); this lone copy of
the mailagent then works on all the messages and filters them
appropiately. This is a feature, folks.
Oh, and this message is, I guess, au revoir, for the
nonce. I'll talk to you guys from my new machine, I guess, some time
mid sept.
manoj
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One week left in the frozen northlands.
Manoj Srivastava Systems Research Programmer, Project Pilgrim,
Phone: (413) 545-3918 A143B Lederle Graduate Research Center,
Fax: (413) 545-3203 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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