On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:36:21PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each > > message. > > > > - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? > > > > - if as a daemon, is smtp_accept_max set to anything? > > > > - if from inetd, are you spawning loads of exim processes and hitting > > a process limit? > > > I believe I am running it from inetd, because the following line is in > /etc/inetd: > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > > I don't know enough to know how to know if I'm spawning lots of exim > processes; do I simply look at 'top' when checking email? I tried > this, saw a process for fetchmail, and only briefly saw a process for > exim (although only a few emails were downloaded). That would be easiest... top, with the delay between updates set to something like 0.25 seconds so you don't miss brief events. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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