If I allow a large number of emails to build up at my email provider, I have problems downloading them. When I run fetchmail, I can download 100-200 of them, but then I get a message such as the following:
reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:195 of 399 (10332 octets) flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:196 of 399 (5552 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from otte.ucsc.edu fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) If I then run fetchmail again, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail otte.ucsc.edu 207 messages for ric at otte.ucsc.edu (1083211 octets). reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 207 (5552 octets) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from otte.ucsc.edu fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) If I wait several minutes (10-15) then I will be able to retrieve another 100-200 emails, at which point I get the same error message. I cannot figure out why this is happening. In my /etc/exim/exim.conf, I have the following line: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 2000 which I thought would allow large numbers of email to be delivered. I checked /var/log/exim/mainlog, and nothing is written when mail fails. I am sending fetchmail through procmail (which also has no error message in the log file) If anyone knows why this is happening, or has any suggestions, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks, Ric ps--in case it is helpful, here are some more parts of /etc/exim/exim.conf that may be relevant. local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true #file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} directory=${home}/Maildir maildir_format = true prefix = "" procmail_pipe: driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/procmail" return_path_add delivery_date_add envelope_to_add # check_string = "From " # escape_string = ">From " suffix = "" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]