on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:18:53AM -0500, mike polniak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tristan wrote: > > I have been using mutt and procmail for a few weeks now, but have > > noticed that once fetchmail gets my mail from my ISPs POP3, mutt show > > all the new messages (or maybe i am hallucinating), but once i run > > fetchmail some other time, and it fetches the new mail, i run mutt and > > it shows alot more new messages than fetchmail fetched. I use procmail, > > and filter several mailing lists into seperate folders. Is it because i > > recieve to much mail at once ?( i do subscribed to several debian > > mailing lists ) and usually fetch 200-300 messages at once. > > If you are using exim as MTA, the default for number of messages > that will be accepted by exim (not fetchmail) for one connection is 100. > All messages over 100 go into the exim queue. In my case i have a > cron job to run the exim queue every 30 mins, and retrieve these > messages. > You can set a higher default for exim messages or run exim: > /sbin/exim -bp #shows the number of queued messages > /sbin/exim -q #retrieves the queued messages.
...or set exim to check its queue more often. 2-6 minutes might be a good interval. /etc/init.d/exim, if you're not running it from /etc/inetd.conf. If you *are* using tcpwrappers, I'm not sure.... -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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