Re: Exim question
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:48:22PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When the fetchmail demon starts running, it often gets large amounts of mail
> in one bunch an tries to shove it into exim for local delivery. However,
> exim doesn't like that and logs:
>
> 2008-01-25 19:30:43 1JITK7-0000ps-J9 no immediate delivery: more than 10
> messages received in one connection
>
> I then can kick loose the mail flood using exim -q as root. But how can I
> convince exim to automatically do the delivery?
Actually, you want to throttle fetchmail. In your fetchmailrc, for each
poll line add batchlimit 10 in the options. I experienced the same problem
and that fix has solved it and has been working for years now.
> Thanks,
> --D.
--Greg
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