On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:
I am using the latest Debian at the command line. For email I use fetchmail,
procmail, mutt and msmtp. I have scripts
that call fetchmail in daemon mode and then call mutt. Fetchmail is then
killed. The weird thing is that if there are
more than 10 messages I can
see only the first 10. The others show up many minutes later as new mail. What
causes this and how can it be fixed?
Like others have said, I don't know why you don't run Fetchmail in daemon
mode and just leve it running, but each to his own.
I suspect you might be having issues with your SMTP server. I saw this
issue when I used Fetchmail. The SMTP server would get all the messages,
but would only send on so many.
You can see if this is the issue by running
mailq
once you've received the first batch of messages. If there are others in
the queue, this is the issue. The queue will need to be flushed, either
manually or the next time the server decies to do it, before you will see
your messages.
It's so long since I used this configuration that I can't remember what I
did about this, and in any case any solution would be SMTP server
specific.
I know I used exim (the Debian default) but I don't remember what I did,
and I would use Postfix nowadays if I were to do this again.
Nowadays I just do IMAP directly to the server which is IMHO much more
efficient.
sorry I can't remember the specifics but this might help narrow down your
problem.
Geoff.
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