On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jeffrey Starin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Just starting out on Exim and a bit confused as to the purpose of queues. > If my email campaign software is firing off outbound emails to the Exim MTA > and Exim subsequently connects to remote SMTP servers to deliver the mail, > then after smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 10 starts dropping them in the > queue for delivery later, what's the purpose of this?
Quoting from the Exim spec (Chapter 14, Main Configuration) "This helps to limit the number of Exim processes when a server restarts after downtime and there is a lot of mail waiting for it on other systems." > It seems to me delivery issues present when Exim is making direct remote > SMTP connections to the mail servers will also be present when the queue > runner starts later and delivers all the messages in the queue anyway. You can then control the max number of queue runners to hold that load down. ...Todd -- Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding -- ## List details at https://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/
