On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > 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. > I'm using fetchmail/exim/mutt (not pine). I looked at my exim.conf just now. I find that I have
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 but I have never noticed a delay in lots of mail showing up in mutt. I think there may be something else involved in Cheryl's problem, but I'm not sufficiently skilled at this to make an intelligent suggestion. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
