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mailq (Score:1)

by kag (4257)

Check and see if sendmail had trouble with the local delivery. (Or the equivalent for whichever MTA fetchmail is feeding.)
Re: (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

Also check your fetchmail log (hopefully you've configured it to keep one of those…)
Re: (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

As well, consider replacing fetchmail+procmail(+spamassassin?) by some homegrown Mail::POP3Client [cpan.org]+Email::Filter [cpan.org]+Email::LocalDelivery [cpan.org](+Mail::SpamAssassin [cpan.org]?) combo. The traditional combo requires one process per mail and plus a fixed overhead of several other processes per fetch, so it bogs down quite a bit when polling a heavily populated mailbox.
Besides that, locking works nicer, the syntax is non-arcane, etc etc etc. :-)