On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:07:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > 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: > >> > 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. . . [snip] > > >> 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. > True. If Paul has an always-on connection, he'll never run up against the message-per-connection limit, and that would be why he never noticed a problem. As you can see from Cheryl's later post, she *does* have DSL, but she *doesn't* leave her machine on all the time, so she will at least sometimes run into the same limit on messages per connection as I do out here in Dial-Up World.
Cordially, Mark S. Reglewski
