Hi Marc (and the list), thanks for your reply. I figured that the -qxm is the better option. I also found the reason, why the queue became so huge. The server is used as an smtp relay for a lot of customers. A lot of other mailservers use extensive greylisting, so a lot of mails get queued. As I left exim in it's initial configuration with 5 max runs and a run every 30 minutes, the queue runs didn't have a chance to trigger new delivery processes. I changed this to max. 50 runs, remote_max_parallel to 150 and a run every 5 minutes. After this I tidied up the queue by deleting old/frozen messages and starting queue runs from the command line. These new settings seem to work fine for me. I will keep an eye on it.
Thanks Felix P.S.: Greatings delivered :) Hummel Hummel On 07.09.2006, at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As documented, Philip recommends using -qxm (which Debian does by > default every 30 minutes) because otherwise the load control > mechanisms are cancelled. If your system is reasonably large, you > might want to reduce the queue runner interval. > > Greetings to my old hometown > Marc -- Felix Havemann -Leiter Technik- w [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Informationssysteme GmbH o http://www.work.de Spaldingstr. 160d r Tel.: +49 40 23 88 09 - 0 D-20097 Hamburg k Fax: +49 40 23 88 09 -29 -- ## 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/
