Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:07:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:17:22 -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >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:
> >> > 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. . . [snip]
>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >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.
> >
> >From Cheryl's description, it looks as if she is getting 1 big mailbag a
> day. On my system, with dsl always connected, I fetch the mailbag every
> 10 minutes or so and seldom have more than 20 at a time, but a couple of
> hundred per day. This may be the same type situation you have, Paul.
>
True. If Paul has an always-on connection, he'll never run up against the
message-per-connection limit, and that would be why he never noticed a
problem. As you can see from Cheryl's later post, she *does* have DSL, but
she *doesn't* leave her machine on all the time, so she will at least
sometimes run into the same limit on messages per connection as I do out
here in Dial-Up World.
Cordially,
Mark S. Reglewski
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