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Re: mutt/fetchmail config



on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:18:53AM -0500, mike polniak (mikpolniak@adelphia.net) wrote:
> Tristan wrote:
> > I have been using mutt and procmail for a few weeks now, but have
> > noticed that once fetchmail gets my mail from my ISPs POP3, mutt show
> > all the new messages (or maybe i am hallucinating), but once i run
> > fetchmail some other time, and it fetches the new mail, i run mutt and
> > it shows alot more new messages than fetchmail fetched. I use procmail,
> > and filter several mailing lists into seperate folders. Is it because i 
> > recieve to much mail at once ?( i do subscribed to several debian
> > mailing lists ) and usually fetch 200-300 messages at once.
> 
> 	If you are using exim as MTA, the default for number of messages
> that will be accepted by exim (not fetchmail) for one connection is 100.
> 	All messages over 100 go into the exim queue. In my case i have a
> cron job to run the exim queue every 30 mins, and retrieve these
> messages.
> 	You can set a higher default for exim messages or run exim:
> /sbin/exim -bp   #shows the number of queued messages
> /sbin/exim -q    #retrieves the queued messages.

...or set exim to check its queue more often.  2-6 minutes might be a
good interval.  /etc/init.d/exim, if you're not running it from
/etc/inetd.conf.  If you *are* using tcpwrappers, I'm not sure....

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