On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:17:22 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: >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
>> 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. >> >> >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. > >From Cheryl's description, it looks as if she is getting 1 big mailbag a day. On my system, with dsl always connected, I fetch the mailbag every 10 minutes or so and seldom have more than 20 at a time, but a couple of hundred per day. This may be the same type situation you have, Paul. gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash
