On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, John Horne wrote:
> Whilst on this subject I must admit to being a touched confused about the
> retry process myself. As in the example below retries are expected to occur
> every 15 minutes. However, the manual states that the retry times are only
> hints and that a queue-running process will attempt delivery for any messages
> that have passed their next retry time. This queue-running process is though
> (I assume) the process initiated, in our case, at system startup by "exim -bd
> -q30m". In that case the process only runs every 30 mins and so, in effect,
> only half the attempts expected actually occur (follow that?? :-) ). Am I
> right in this?
Yes, you are correct. We have always run our queue runners here every 15
minutes (since I first started with smail about 5 years ago) so that has
tended to creep into the examples and defaults in the Exim distribution.
I guess I could try to make this even clearer in the documentation.
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