*- On 2 Mar, Mark Phillips wrote about "Hamm-->Slink, now fetchmail/exim
behaves strangely"
>
> I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the
> same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my
> mail box straight away. The rest of the messages sit around in the
> /var/spool/exim/input directory for about 5 minutes before eventually
> being delivered to my mail box.
>
> Under Hamm the messages would all go straight to my mail box. Why is
> it that under Slink, only the first 10 get there directly, and the
> rest take their time?
>
It is because fetchmail is flooding the smtp port with connections and
exim stops delivering mail when this happens. I have put the following
at the end of my fetchmailrc, it forces exim it empty the que
immediately.
postconnect "exim -q"
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Brian
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