On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each > message. > > - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? > > - if as a daemon, is smtp_accept_max set to anything? > > - if from inetd, are you spawning loads of exim processes and hitting > a process limit? > I believe I am running it from inetd, because the following line is in /etc/inetd: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
I don't know enough to know how to know if I'm spawning lots of exim processes; do I simply look at 'top' when checking email? I tried this, saw a process for fetchmail, and only briefly saw a process for exim (although only a few emails were downloaded). Thanks, Ric
