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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

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