Re: Queued up mail to the same host not delivered in one SMT…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Christoph Lameter
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: Queued up mail to the same host not delivered in one SMTP session
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> I have watched exim deliver mail using
>
> /usr/sbin/exim -d -q 0wNgCf-000340-00
>
> It does not deliver messages in one session but delivers one message then
> goes to some messages for other hosts and then comes back to the first
> host.


As explained in the last three paragraphs of chapter 3, Exim does not
have per-host queues. It is designed for use in situations where most
messages (98% at our site - and at John Henders' site, as posted here a
couple of days ago) can be delivered immediately.

> The mail exploder is delivering backlogged mail from mailing lists and it
> is highly likely that multiple e-mails are stacked up for a person!


Then you should get it to give the messages to Exim with the -odqs
option. That will route the messages but not deliver them. Exim then
remembers which messages are waiting for which host, and the next time
it has a connection to a host, it will attempt to deliver multiple
messages.

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