Re: exim loosing mail?

[mike polniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

Joel Ståbis wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail
> exim just accepts the first 100 of them.
> 
> The log-file says:
> 
> 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100
> messages received in one connection
> 
> but the rest of the mails never gets delivered.
> 
> Does anyone know what exim does with the rest of the mails? I use procmail to
> put all mails in the right folders, does that have anything to do with this?

	Well when smtp_accept_queue_per_connection limit is reached
subsequent messages are put in the input queue. So they will get
delivered later.
	You can run /usr/sbin/exim -q manually or check  if /etc/cron.d/exim
is set up to run the queue every 30 mins. You should also get a syslog msg
when the cron job is run.
	I have my limit set at 100 and have checked my logs to know that
when i get more than 100 msgs the cron job to run exim's queue does in fact
deliver all the subsequent msgs that have been put in the queue.
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