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

[Jon Dowland]

At 1144891855 past the epoch, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:24:00PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > 2006-04-12 19:36:44 1FTkCq-0002cI-IR no immediate delivery: more
> > than 10 messages received in one connection
> 
> That's a feature to reduce load spikes, see
> http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#head-bf42ef41ae163a7ba6d076540c7bb428a70ca04e

Ah I see. I've updated that page with precise instructions on making
fetchmail call runq.

> > 2006-04-06 23:33:06 rejected MAIL command H=localhost [127.0.0.1]:
> > too many messages in one connection
> 
> I have never seen this. How many messages were received.

I will have to check here

> > 2006-04-06 23:33:06 SMTP call from localhost [127.0.0.1] dropped:
> > too many nonmail commands (last was "RSET"
> 
> That seems to be a fetchmail glitch.

I'll have to check here too: In both cases, I think there's still the
possibility of a bug here.

> You can create a local mailadmin group, set this group admin_group in
> exim and do this then.

Thanks!

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Jon Dowland
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