Re: Exim problem

Giorgos Keramidas (keramida@ceid.upatras.gr)
13 Nov 1999 18:06:29 +0200


Martin Fenelon <g4wje@freeuk.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Just a quick request for assistance with an Exim config problem.
>
> Using Debian 2.1, Exim 2.05, Fetchmail-4.6.4. The glitch is this.
> When fetching mail from POP3 mailboxes at my ISP, if there are more than
> 10 messages to retrieve, the first 10 will find their way to
> /var/spool/mail/<user> as usual but additional messages end up in the
> outgoing mail queue !. The Exim mainlog reports "no immediate delivery:
> more than 10 messages received in one connection"
> I suspect that this is a very simple config error, but it's beating me.

Use the -b option of fetchmail, which controls how many messages to push
into an SMTP listener before the connection is torn down and
reestablished. With a default smaller than the number of 10 messages
that seems to make your Exim unhappy, you should be fine.

This can be either given in the command line, as in:

% fetchmail -d 300 -b 5

or by setting `batchlimit' in your ~/.fetchmailrc file.

It's all in the manual page of fetchmail ;-)

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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