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

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:43:14PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> 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

Ouch. As spec.txt quite clearly says, smtp_accept_queue_per_connection
is an option for the main part of configuration, so - if split config
is being used - it belongs into
/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options or some other file in
the main directory. The modifications to the transport or the retry
configuration should have rendered your configuration invalid and
caused exim to reject your configuration changes.

Since this has not happened, I guess that you're using non-split
configuration and should have changed /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.

Please grep split /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and re-read
README.Debian chapter 2.1.

> 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?

The mailing list is mentioned all over the place.

> PS2: Please CC: me.

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Greetings
Marc

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