Mail checking delayed

[Andreas Schmidt <pi-c arcor de>]

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Hi,

I have a strange problem here. It seems that Balsa does not recognize 
immediately when mail has arrived in an open mailbox.

BTW, I use fetchmail to get mails, and procmail to put it into 
appropriate folders.

I've been wondering why I didn't receive mail from a specific person 
and used the find-command to check whether there really hadn't been any 
mail. This is the relevant part of the output:

pc rocket:~/mail$ find . -type f -exec ls -lh {} \; | sort -rk6,7 | 
head
- -rw-r--r-- 1 pc pc 21M 2007-09-05 22:04 ./local/.procmail.log
- -rw------- 1 pc pc 53M 2007-09-05 22:04 ./local/server
- -rw------- 1 pc pc 7,4M 2007-09-05 22:02 ./local/rocket
- -rw-r--r-- 1 pc pc 94M 2007-09-05 21:24 ./Lists/Debian/Debian User
- -rw-r--r-- 1 pc pc 1,3M 2007-09-05 19:39 ./people/Friends/XXX

Actually, there had been mail in people/Friends/XXX since 7:39 PM, but 
it hadn't shown up in Balsa at about 10:15 PM -- almost 3 hrs after 
arrival! The option "Subscribe for new mail check" in the properties 
for this mailbox was activated, also I had just read a message there, 
so it was open. Only when I changed+updated the identity for this 
mailbox did Balsa read it again and  find the new message. This is not 
the only one where I did notice this kind of behavior, though. Is there 
perhaps anything else I forgot to activate, or how can this delay be 
explained?

Best regards,

Andreas 
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