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- From: eht@cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: Weird pickup delays in Mail 3.0
- Message-ID: <By31z5.Kqr.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:23:27 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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- I've seen these delays in Mail quite often. They seem to get very frequent
- when new mail is arriving while you are fetching mail from
- /usr/spool/mail/<hoohaa>. Some bizarre stuff happened when I fired off a
- boatload of requests to an automated mail server.
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- ..eric
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