Bug#362236: exim4-base: exim4's default settings throttle local connections (e.g. fetchmail)

[Jon Dowland]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.50-8
Severity: minor

Hello,

The default exim4 settings (i.e., the stuff an average user
won't be tweaking) result in quite a lot of delays for local
deliveries.

Here are some example log messages received when I fetchmail
a large quantity of messages:

2006-04-12 19:36:44 1FTkCq-0002cI-IR no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection

2006-04-06 23:33:06 rejected MAIL command H=localhost [127.0.0.1]: too many messages in one connection
2006-04-06 23:33:06 SMTP call from localhost [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many nonmail commands (last was "RSET"

I can get root and runq to solve the issue (oh,
incidentally, with exim3 couldn't I bung someone in the mail
group to use mailq and runq?)



Thanks, 



-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 27-May-2005 08:08:19
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='alcopop.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='alcopop.org'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:qusp.alcopop.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4-jmtd2
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.63             Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-86        management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.4.30.13        Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-con 4.50-8           configuration for the exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                   2.3.2.ds1-22     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                4.2.52-18        Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  netbase                 4.21             Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and

-- debconf information:
  exim4/purge_spool: false
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/