On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:01 +0100, Jaco Engelbrecht wrote:
> A mail gets sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please use specific values, it's unclear if {some.arb.domain} can vary
for each of the mentions.
> - Given the following:
>
> mailbox10: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailbox20: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> list10: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> A mail message get sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> How far will Exim go in delivering the mails?
it will recurse, but quickly reach the bottom since it has routed the
addresses already, so there will be 3 deliveries. in this example, there
should never be more than 5 deliveries under consideration.
> I've set 'check_ancestor' in my routers where applicable.
that doesn't really incluence the recursion depth.
> - What's the best way of telling Exim to not use more than X amount of
> memory?
> I don't see any configuration in Exim itself, so will it best to
> just setup resource limiting for Exim on OS level?
do you really think "randomly" killing Exim is better than having it
slug through its task?
add more swap.
--
Kjetil T.
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