Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't
> > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail.
> > When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple
> > hundred messages, and all of them are fetched. But when I get into Pine,
> > only 100 of those messages are present, plus the smaller numbers of
> > messages from my other email providers. This wouldn't bother me, except
> > that it is sometimes fifteen minutes or more before the rest of those
> > messages finally appear in my Pine inbox. What's going on here? At first,
> > I thought I was losing mail; it does all eventually get to the inbox, but
> > why the big delay?
>
> If you are using exim as your MTA, edit /etc/exim.conf and change the value
> of smtp_accept_queue_per_connection to a sane value for your mail volume.
> The default value is 10. For a smarthost set-up, I believe this is changed
> to 100, which is way too low if you subscribe to active mail lists like
> debian-user. What is happening is that exim is queueing everything over
> 100 messages for later delivery.
>
> Either set the value to a very high number that will allow delivery of all
> mails in one connection, or set it to zero to disable the feature.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
I'm using fetchmail/exim/mutt (not pine). I looked at my exim.conf just now.
I find that I have
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
but I have never noticed a delay in lots of mail showing up in mutt.
I think there may be something else involved in Cheryl's problem, but I'm
not sufficiently skilled at this to make an intelligent suggestion.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@quiknet.com
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