dear maildrop community,

i'm using maildrop (maildir) in my company since 2002 and all works fine until august.2005.

exactly since midnight 20/21.august.2005 maildrop shows an, in my opinion, strange behaviour:

before he starts parsing the maidroprc he seems to 'sleep' for exactly 189 seconds. (timeout?) then he deliveres the mail without any errors.

i discovered this fact during an regulary mail log check and reproduced it manually: ************************************************************************************************************** time cat receivedmail | maildrop -V 9 -d fleischera (here he sleeps...) maildrop: Changing to /data/samba/volumes/home_office/fleischera Message start at 46 bytes, envelope sender=fa...@bbradio.de Tokenized ; Tokenized ; Tokenized eof maildrop: Attempting .mailfilter maildrop: Delivery complete.

real 3m9.284s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.000s **************************************************************************************************************

i had searched the web all day long and found nothing. maybe someone reads this posting and could give me some hints.

at the moment i'm interested in the following fact: what does maildrop before he is parsing the maildroprc?

any help is welcome

greetings from potsdam/germany

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