Hello, On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, W B Hacker wrote:
> On a 'healthy' POSIX-based system, a single queue should never outrun > available > filenames at one level. You are right, but I asked about this feature, because in our case we run large mailing lists without the use of mailman. Every reciepient gets an individual copy of an email with his address in the TO field. Because we have some critical times like 3 a.m and noon where we send many messages (up to 10K now but it is growing daily), the queue fills up very quickly and exim (actually currently Mercury) needs time to process them. So at peak times there may be about 4-5K emails in queue. As you say, one-size-fits-all doesn't work. We delete bouncing emails on a daily basis but still at peak times, we simmply need to allow mail server do its job and it takes time. FYI - since yestarday I have been a FreeBSD user... not quite there yet... feeling a bit as if I woke up at night and the streets are not lit (not using X windows) but slowly beggining to learn new rules ;) Warm regards, Zbyszek -- ## 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/
