Agreed, I personally wouldn't start the job every minute - probably every 5 minutes anyway. Plus your cron script could look to see how many exim jobs were already running if this worried you.
It is however a solution... -Andy- On Fri, June 2, 2006 18:07, Chris Lightfoot said: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:04:22PM +0100, Andrew Johnson wrote: >> One alternative is a cron job that runs every minute instead of a queue >> runner. >> >> Something to the effect of :- >> >> for i in `exiqgrep -i | head -n 100` >> do >> exim -M $i >> done >> >> This will process the oldest 100 emails in the queue. > > but beware that such cron jobs can start to pile up if > they take more than a minute to run.... > > -- > ``There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as > easy > to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer > know > how to use my telephone.'' (Bjarne Stroustroup) > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
