Re: mutt/fetchmail config
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 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....
>
you can also set
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0
in /etc/exim.conf to make exim deliver all messages in the queue
I had the same prob since when downloading debian-user mails from a
dialup machine there is quite often a couple of hundred messages.
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