Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.44-2_i386
I get my mail from my ISP via fetchmail when I dialup. So today there
were 34 messages waiting, but unfortunately, most of them don't get
delivered to me until 30 minutes later when exim4 does its next queue run.
Here's from the syslog file<sect1>:
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Jul 16 12:22:08 davespc fetchmail[1499]: 34 messages for dave at mail.lafn.org
(130271 octets).
Jul 16 12:22:09 davespc fetchmail[1499]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of
34 (2147 octets)
.....
Jul 16 12:23:47 davespc fetchmail[1499]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:34
of 34 (2278 octets)
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Then from the exim mainlog file I got 12 "Completed" like the
following. 2 were in the queue before fetchmail started.
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2005-07-16 12:22:45 1DtsFH-0000ON-S5 Completed
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Then got many more like the following: (24 such messages ?)
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2005-07-16 12:22:46 1DtsFK-0000ON-SM <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(localhost)
[127.0.0.1] U=fetchmail P=esmtp S=3374 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005-07-16 12:22:46 1DtsFK-0000ON-SM no immediate delivery: more than 10
messages received in one connection
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So it's behaving as if smpt_accept-max_per_connection was set to 10.
But it's not set to 10 since the command: exim4 -bP shows it set to the
default of 1000. Others have reported this problem on the Internet
and one reported that adding smpt_accept-max_per_connection = 100 to
the config file didn't fix the problem. So I didn't try it. After
all, it's already supposed to be set to 1000. The -bP option seems to
show what exim4 thinks after checking it's configuration files.
The other possibility for this error was that
smpt_accept-max_per_connection = 10 was somehow given as a command
line option from /etc/init.d/exim4. Here is that file:
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#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/exim4
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Modified for exim by Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Modified for exim4 by Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
set -e
[ -n "$EX4DEBUG" ] && set -x
upex4conf() {
UPEX4CONF="update-exim4.conf"
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS=:
for p in $PATH; do
if [ -x "$p/$UPEX4CONF" ]; then
IFS="$OLDIFS"
$p/$UPEX4CONF
return 0
fi
done
IFS="$OLDIFS"
}
# Exit if exim runs from /etc/inetd.conf
if [ -f /etc/inetd.conf ] && grep -E -q "^ *([0-9.]+:)?smtp" /etc/inetd.conf
then
upex4conf
exit 0
fi
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim4
NAME=exim4
##test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
test -x /usr/lib/exim4/exim4 || exit 0
#read default file
QUEUERUNNER='combined'
QUEUEINTERVAL='30m'
[ -f /etc/default/exim4 ] && . /etc/default/exim4
start_exim()
{
case ${QUEUERUNNER} in
combined)
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- -bd -q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL} \
${COMMONOPTIONS} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
;;
separate)
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- -oP /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
;;
queueonly)
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- -oP /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
;;
no|ppp)
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -- -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
;;
nodaemon)
;;
esac
}
stop_exim()
{
# we try to kill eximqr and exim SMTP listener, no matter what
# ${QUEUERUNNER} is set to, we could have switched since starting.
[ -f /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid ] && \
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
--oknodo --retry 30 --exec $DAEMON
[ -f /var/run/exim4/exim.pid ] && \
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--oknodo --retry 30 --exec $DAEMON
rm -f /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid /var/run/exim4/exim.pid
}
reload_exim()
{
case ${QUEUERUNNER} in
combined|no|ppp)
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--signal 1 --exec $DAEMON
;;
separate)
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid \
--signal 1 --exec $DAEMON
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid \
--signal 1 --exec $DAEMON
;;
esac
}
# check for valid configuration file
isconfigvalid()
{
if ! $DAEMON -bV > /dev/null ; then
echo
echo "Warning! Invalid configuration file for $NAME. Exiting." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
}
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting MTA: "
# regenerate exim4.conf
upex4conf
isconfigvalid
start_exim
echo "$NAME."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping MTA: "
stop_exim
echo "$NAME."
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restarting MTA: "
# regenerate exim4.conf
upex4conf
isconfigvalid
stop_exim
sleep 2
start_exim
echo "$NAME."
;;
reload|force-reload)
echo "Reloading $NAME configuration files"
# regenerate exim4.conf
upex4conf
isconfigvalid
reload_exim
;;
status)
exiwhat
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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David Lawyer
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