Pkg exim4 users - Feb 2007 - Exim stops delivery after ten messages are received

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

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.
Done. Once. You need to be subscribed to post.

Greetings
Marc

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> /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 certainly would not have chosen any of those files.

My first question would be are you using a split or non-split 
configuration option?

If a split configuration, create a file called 
/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localdefs and put your variable setting in 
there.

If non-split, create a file called /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros and 
put your definition in there.

Undo the changes you made to the files listed above.

Then run

invoke-rc.d exim4 restart

See what happens after that.

Regards
Neil

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