[kwlug-disc] what is the probable cause of mail downloading being painfully slow?

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On December 27, 2008 02:32:23 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > There is a "no dns" option to fetchmail that may help you. You may
> > also need to specifiy the "localdomains" to make sure you get email.
>
>   tried that, didn't make any difference, still a horrendous time
> lag between messages.

MTU issue?  What's tcpdump tell you as you're downloading a few?

-A.