On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. > When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple > hundred messages, and all of them are fetched. But when I get into Pine, > only 100 of those messages are present, plus the smaller numbers of > messages from my other email providers. This wouldn't bother me, except > that it is sometimes fifteen minutes or more before the rest of those > messages finally appear in my Pine inbox. What's going on here? At first, > I thought I was losing mail; it does all eventually get to the inbox, but > why the big delay?
If you are using exim as your MTA, edit /etc/exim.conf and change the value of smtp_accept_queue_per_connection to a sane value for your mail volume. The default value is 10. For a smarthost set-up, I believe this is changed to 100, which is way too low if you subscribe to active mail lists like debian-user. What is happening is that exim is queueing everything over 100 messages for later delivery. Either set the value to a very high number that will allow delivery of all mails in one connection, or set it to zero to disable the feature. Hope this helps. Cordially, Mark S. Reglewski
