Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:15:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: downloading e-mail is blocking network Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005192101570.5174@yokozuna.lan>
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Hi, I'm having a strange network problem. Every day, when I turn on my computer, fetchmail is started and procmail is putting all my mail in the correct mailboxes. This takes some time because I receive a few hundred e-mails a day (mostly mailing lists). The strange thing is that when the e-mail is being downloaded, all other network traffic seems blocked. So browsing the internet is not possible when fetchmail/procmail is busy. At first I thought I had a problem with DNS and/or DHCP and/or my ADSL modem because after a reset of the modem, the problem mostly went away, and there were some "hostname not found" errors in my logfiles. But today I just waited for a while and discovered that when fetchmail/procmail is finished, the internet suddenly was reachable again. So has anyone has seen fetchmail/procmail blocking network traffic before? Regards, Marco -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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