Re: My emails are vanishing...
:: serge delorme writes:
> I have an odd problem with my emails. I have a dialup
> connection, I get my mail via fetchmail and for what I can see
> it's working OK. Mutt is my mail reader and I also have GKrellM
> running on the desktop (bear with me).
> If I have more than 100 emails gkrellm stops the count at 100, Mutt only
> diplays 100 even if I have 143 messages (for him I only have 100).
> Sometimes after reading the first 100 and deleting them I can get the rest
> if I restart mutt, other times they are lost...
> ????
Are you using exim? It has a limit on the maximum number of messages
per smtp connection.
Check your /etc/exim.conf file for a line like
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
I remember I had the same problem, and the fix was to set a larger
value there.
J.
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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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