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Re: [PLUG] fetchmail+exim+pine
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When fetchmail runs, it's starting multiple instances of exim to transport
the messages to your mailbox. Since multiple processes will not write to
your mailbox at the same time, the message gets put into Exim's queue.
(This is basically normal.)
The next bit is a little tricky to explain. Exim makes a queue run
whenever the -q options says it should (usually every 30 minutes). This
does NOT mean that Exim will attempt to deliver all of the messages in the
queue every queue run. The queue is controlled by a complicated series of
timers based on your retry and transport configurations. The message gets
put into the queue and waits until all of it's timers reach zero
(basically) before Exim attempts to deliver the message again.
As for a fix, you need to adjust your retry configuration and your
local delivery transport configuration to use very short or no timers. You
should probably also adjust your queue run time to a short interval as
well. You will still see delays in message delivery but it will be much
shorter delays.
One last thing: Pine does not constantly check your currently open folder
for new messages. By default, Pine will only check for new messages every
5 minutes or so.
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On the 8th day of May in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 07:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Naresh <nganta@myrealbox.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: [PLUG] fetchmail+exim+pine
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> Hi:
>
> I have been using fetchmail (pop3, myrealbox), exim and pine to view my
> e-mails. Recently when I do fetchmail, everything is fetched correct BUT I
> am thinking exim is taking a very long time to deliver it to my local
> mailbox (/home/foo/mail). So, every few hours, when pine is loaded a new
> mail comes, which was supposed to be there instantly. Anyone else
> experience this? Is there a fix?
>
> THanks,
> Naresh
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