From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 19:15:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45F9106566C for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 19:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbeis@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr18.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr18.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E56C8FC0A for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 19:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yokozuna.lan (213-84-73-82.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.101.78.208]) by smtp-vbr18.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4JJFPOb060731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:15:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbeis@xs4all.nl) Received: from yokozuna.lan (yokozuna.lan [IPv6:::1]) by yokozuna.lan (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4JJFON5005996 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 21:15:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbeis@xs4all.nl) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:15:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen Sender: marco@yokozuna.lan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: downloading e-mail is blocking network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:15:27 -0000 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"