On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Peter Bowyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well since you indicated you were running the queue manually once a > day, I think it was a reasonable assumption that you hadn't found the > part of the manual that tells you how to get Exim to do that for > you..... so I pointed you to it. > > exim -q1d will emulate your manual queue running. > > What 'should' be done depends on your circumstances - what's your > queueing strategy? What's in the queue? At a guess it probably fills > up with frozen undeliverable bounces, which don't benefit from a queue > run at all. You can run the queue at intervals anything from a minute > to many weeks with that option. > A few times per week the server gets a burst of 1000+ outgoing messages in less than a minute. (They're notifications to (paying!) subscribers of a newsletter, that a new issue is ready.) I don't understand the behavior very well, but exim seems to go into a panic mode where all deliveries are deferred while it tries to sort through this mountain of mail. However, without a queue runner, they all just sit there in the queue until I run it manually. Our normal load is perhaps 100-200 outgoing messages per day, which generally are not queued and just pass through the system very quickly. (I saw something the other day about having exim act as a sort of "poor man's list server", but now I can't find it. It said something about piping to a file of addresses...? Eh, that's probably best left for another message, it's off topic for this thread.) Thanks for the help, Peter. I didn't mean my RTFM comment to sound rude, earlier. Seth -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
