Hi Yoshio,
Thanks again. I think I can solve the problem now.
John
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:50:55PM -0800, yoshio wrote:
> Also, if you just installed a new debian system, the default MTA is exim4.
> Try typing "dpkg -l |grep exim", do you see any exim packages listed?
>
>
Hi Yoshio,
This looks helpful. All I'm really interested in is why only the first ten
messages are delivered immediately and the
rest sit in the mail queue for what seems like half an hour.
Thanks,
John
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:15:21PM -0800, yoshio wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I have this in my
John:
I still don't understand why you need to stop and start fetchmail, let
alone why you need three instances to monitor three accounts.
You can easily configure your .fetchmailrc to source multiple accounts. If you
want polling at different time intervals for each, you can configure that in
On December 12, 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Mutt gets the first ten if there are more. Mailq shows that the
> rest are in the queue. They are delivered in about half an hour.
Answers to a couple more questions might help track down where things
are going slow:
Are you running mailq on the mail
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Subject: Re: Strange mail problem
Hi Janina, Tim and Geoff,
I am using scripts because I have three email accounts. I set them up many
rears ago
Hi Janina, Tim and Geoff,
I am using scripts because I have three email accounts. I set them up many
rears ago. They worked fine until I installed
Debian on my new machine a couple of months ago. Each has its own fetchmailrc
and muttrc. This may not be the best way
to do things, but it was
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
In addition to Janina's suggestions, it would also help to know
1) how are you storing mail? In maildir or mbox format?
2) if you look in your local mail directories, is all the mail
there. Determining the number of messages may depend on which format
you're storing it in. For mbox, you
John:
I think you need to provide all more information for any of us to help
you here.
For instance, let's start with just the fetchmail piece. You mention
scripts. I'm not sure why you would use a script for fetchmail. I would
expect you'd enable it in daemon mode, probably using systemd, and
