Bug#268888: exim4: Exim4 does not deliver immediately email got by fetchmail

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:03:31PM +0200, David wrote:
> I'm using fetchmail to get my emails and email delivering is done by
> exim4. I've noticed that freshly gotten email by fetchmail is not
> delivered immediately to user accounts. In need to do an 'exim4 -q' to
> flush email queue.

That's a feature.

> This behaviour is different from the Woody's one, where email is
> delivered immediately to user accounts.

No, Woody's exim 3 had a limit as well.

> Is it possible to get an immediate delivery of emails got by fetchmail?

Yes.

See smtp_accept_queue_per_connection.

Greetings
Marc

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