On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, John Oxley wrote: > Recently I've been getting a lot of bounce messages sitting in my queue > that are intended for users that do not exist. These cannot be bounced > because they do not have a sender address, and they sit frozen in the > queue for 2 days before they are discarded. I have about 15000 of these > messages at any one time.
Why not enable verify=recipient so that you don't accept these in the first place? > I am worried that exim is trying to deliver them every 30 minutes. This > shouldn't happen if the message is frozen correct? It will *look* at every message whenever the queue runs; if the message is frozen, it should say "ah, frozen, leave it alone". > Are there any dangers of changing ignore_bounce_errors_after to > something like 12h and dropping timeout_frozen_after to 2d from 7d? I have used 12h. There are even sites the set ignore_bounce_errors_after to 0h; with 15000 messages you aren't going to look at them, are you? So you might as well sling them asap. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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/
