I have determined that all of the messages in fact get to exim4. (So I would consider this then a bug with Exim4 more than Fetchmail, but it's not clear what triggers this)
All after the first 9 are stored in the "/var/spool/exim4/input" directory. However, when I reload the exim4 daemon, the queue files disappear, and they all go to the correct place. ========== patrick:/var/spool/exim4/input# ls -ltr total 368 -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 694 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-V8-D -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 3800 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-Mw-H -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 2658 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-Mw-D -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 3875 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-Ed-H -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 1563 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-Ed-D -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 1869 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-6B-H -rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 5326 Nov 16 15:12 1GkqOw-0000nC-6B-D etc... patrick:/var/spool/exim4/input# /etc/init.d/exim4 status checking separate queue runner daemon...done (not running). checking combined SMTP listener and queue runner daemon...done (running). patrick:/var/spool/exim4/input# /etc/init.d/exim4 reload Reloading exim4 configuration files: exim4. patrick:/var/spool/exim4/input# ls -ltr total 0 ========== Now, this stiiI still don't understand why messages end up in the Exim4 queue According to my mail.log, fetchmail sends the exact same commands to the SMTP daemon for mails that are kept and those that are held in the queue. ========== Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: forwarding to localhost Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2992 Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP< 250 OK Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP< 250 Accepted Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP> DATA Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP>. (EOM) Nov 16 15:12:20 patrick fetchmail[3014]: SMTP< 250 OK id=1GkqP6-0000nC-Hn ========== Exim4 also keeps corresponding msglog files, but they don't say anything useful. I have yet to find a Exim4 log that tells me what it's thinking. patrick:/var/spool/exim4/msglog# cat 1GkqOw-0000nC-6B 2006-11-16 15:12:10 Received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost (patrick) [127.0.0.1] U=fetchmail P=esmtp S=6803 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Patrick
