[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim stops delivery after ten messages are received

[Jens Seidel]

Hi,

since a really long time I always start exim4 -q after fetching my mails
via fetchmail, since only 10 mails are queued by default.

Now I tried to change it but without luck. I searched for this topic
for quite some time and found a few references to the exim variable
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection and also to
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ section 1.3.3. Exim stops
delivery after ten messages are received.

Nevertheless this section turned out to be completely useless. I added
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=0 and also
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=500 to quite a few config files:

/etc/exim4/conf.d/retry/30_exim4-config
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_maildir_home
/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

I started update-exim4.conf after this and restarted exim4. No success!
I assume I just selected the wrong config files, right?
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated has a new time stamp but still does
not contain smtp_accept_queue_per_connection!

Any idea?

I use exim4 version 4.63-17. Since I selected the fetchmail related
point during the debconf configuration I wonder why delivering of more than
10 messages isn't enabled per default or at least available as comment
in the config file(s).

PS: The PkgExim4UserFAQ mentions the "Debian exim4 user mailing list". I
assume it is this list, since I didn't found a exim related list on
lists.debian.org. Wouldn't it be a good idea to explain this too?

PS2: Please CC: me.

Jens