On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> What does "quit" mean? Exim will accept a limited number of connections
> (I believe 20 is the default) at a time, and then turn away additional
> connections.
>
> How can I increase the limit? I want at least 100 simultaneous connections.
RTFM.
> The problem was that Exim after delivering some messages did not again pick up
> listening to the SMTP port. The "exim -bd" process was simply gone for good.
The listen backlog was probably exceeded because you were running on a
heavily congested link. You probably need to increase this limit too.
Tom