Hi, Is there an exim incantation possible to deliver a lot of frozen mails to the same domain over 1 connection without using a separate queuerunner with -qqff?
Yesterday I had a problem with MessageLabs refusing connections when delivering mails to a domain of a customer of ours. Once a connection had succeeded mails got through, but four connections later messagelabs refused connections again. My working hypothesis is that they implement some sort of fail2ban-like behaviour, and once triggered you stay on the 'bad boys'-list for a while. But, once you have a lot of mail queued up the normal queuerunners keep trying to deliver, the connections never succeed, and the queue keeps growing so you never got off the bad-boy list. As a temporary solution I froze all mails to the domain, waited an hour and ran a single queuerunner with -qqff but it didn't really deliver all mails over a single connection because, as far as i can see, before the 'second run' of the -qqff takes place all frozen mails are thawed which are then free for the normal queuerunners to deliver. I realize that I could have stopped the normal queuerunners but that would've stopped all other mail on the queue from being delivered... I tried exim -v -M [lots of messageids], but all mails got delivered over a separate connection. The documentation for queue_smtp_domains did not help me out, because it says "a delivery process is started whenever a message is received ... but instead the message waits on the queue for the next queue run" and my messages are already on the queue. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html Ideas? Maarten. -- ## 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/
