fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading
Hello, Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from my pop3 box. This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten new ones in there. Anyone else experienced this? Please CC me when responding. TIA. -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading
Hello, Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from my pop3 box. This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten new ones in there. Anyone else experienced this? the mails are not dropped, but postponed. exim has a flood-protection, which allows only 10 messages in one connection. the messages are still in the mail queue. add smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 to exims main config in /etc/exim.cfg -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading
Did you run the mailq command and check if any were being held for later delivery? I think the default nature of Exim is to download 10 messages and a time, try checking /etc/exim.conf and see if that is still set to default. I had to up mine to like 200 so mail would not back up. Regards, Todd Hello, Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from my pop3 box. This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten new ones in there. Anyone else experienced this? Please CC me when responding. TIA. -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading
David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from my pop3 box. This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten new ones in there. Anyone else experienced this? Please CC me when responding. Drops it or queues it? I suspect the later. Occasionally if fetchmail delivers a load of messages at once exim will queue them up for delivery (I think 10 minutes later, but this is configurable). Personally, after a large fetchmail session, I use the /usr/sbin/runq command to flush them and deliver them to me immediately. Gary
