Re: [Nmh-workers] inc, slocal, procmail, ...

[Ken Hornstein]

>One thing to keep in mind when thinking about that line is that inc is
>typically synchronous, where our use of fetchmail/procmail (or whatever)
>is asynchronous. By the time we step up to MH, everything is already in
>a folder or in the local maildrop ready for +inbox (or already in
>+inbox). I don't want to have to wait for inc to go to my remote server.

I just timed inc ... to go to my POP server, which included Kerberos
authentication (4 extra round trips), download a small test message
(session was encrypted), write it out (to a network filesystem, no less),
and exit, it took:

        0.04 real         0.01 user         0.00 sys

Are you really THAT impatient, Bill? :-)  Ok, fine ... going across the
global internet for all that will be a lot worse.  But most of the time
I never notice it unless there's a problem.

-Ken