On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:58:11PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > 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. much nicer solution than allowing exim to be flooded like that. I suspect leaving exim open to 150 mails per connection would be a spammer's dream... (ignoring the fact that your exim is secured properly ;) A
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