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Re: New mail doesn't show up till I send mail



On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:34:12PM +0100, Thomas B. wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 01:58:30PM -0800, John Velman wrote:
> > I copied my .procmailrc, my .fetchmailrc, and my .muttrc pretty much intact
> > >from my old Linux box to my (leopard) mac.  I set up postfix pretty much
> > I'd be happy if someone could point me where to look!
...[snip]
> 
> I would guess that it's a Postfix configuration problem: Sounds like the
> mail from fetchmail gets stuck in some queue, which is only flushed when
> you manually kick Postfix by sending some mail.
> 
> Is fetchmail configured to deliver mail through Postfix? Is Postfix
> running as a daemon?

Looks like this was the problem!  At one time, I had set the OS X
...LaunchDaemons file for postscript to run as a daemon, but somehow in
my final tweaking I lost it.

Anyway, since I restored the OnDemand <false/>  it _seems_ to be working!

Thanks.