On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:37:23 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A thought: I wonder, from your previous mention of queue runners, if you >think that the queue runner is the *only* way messages are delivered? If >so, you haven't quite understood the way Exim (as normally configured) >works. If 20 messages arrive at once, all 20 will immediately be >delivered, using up to 40 simultaneous outgoing connections (with >remote_max_parallel at the default of 2). The queue runners work only on >messages that have previously had a temporary delivery error.
The system in question is running with queue_only = true to take advantage of the two-stage queue running process invoked by exim -qq. Most of my setups use real mailing list software which batches up the outgoing mail into many messages with a few hundred recipients each. The current case, where an alias is used to expand a single address into a list of 20K recipients, is a "first" for me and I was dumbfounded by exim not having delivered to the first thousand recipients after an hour. Unfortunately, the system owner decided to replace exim with postfix before I found out about remote_max_parallel. Postfix delivers to all 20K recipients in like five minutes. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## 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/
