On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Russell King <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've disabled the queue runner, the exim daemon is currently in >>> queue-only mode (no -q argument). >> Um, you really want to run totally manually? > I don't _want_ to but at the moment I have no choice to stop exim > sprialing out of control. If I allow it to run the queue, it will > do it in what seems to be a completely uncontrolled manner.
I believe you are getting the appearance of it being uncontrolled because what is supposed to be short lived processes are not terminating. >> Meantime, what settings do you have on the >> smtp transport in use for these deliveries, >> for max_rcpt and serialize_hosts > max_rcpt is not set, because I want exim to deliver all message recipients > in one SMTP transaction. Also, serialize_hosts was unset. I just tried > setting it to *, and it still started running away. Delete your hints files (/var/spool/exim/db/ by default, but it depends where you distro puts it if you don't build it from source); see if that makes a difference. In the exim manual regarding serialize_hosts: "If you set up this kind of serialization, you should also arrange to delete the relevant hints database whenever your system reboots. The names of the files start with misc and they are kept in the spool/db directory. There may be one or two files, depending on the type of DBM in use." It doesn't seem logical to me that you should have to clear the hints db, but it must store the info in the database differently if serialize_hosts is on? I haven't looked at the code, so I'm only guessing. >> Also, how many processes is "a great number" ? > Even with the limits I've given, I see in excess of 20 exim -MC processes > one exim -M <message-id> where the message-id following -MC is different. > I don't recall the other parameters. Can you show us the output of exiwhat? That may give us a better idea of what's going on. If you prefer to do this offlist, that's fine, but my availability is limited because work is really busy right now (and work pays the bills). ...Todd -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine -- ## 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/
