On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 arb-exim@??? wrote:
> Hello. I am a new user of exim. I have just installed version 1.92 on my
> BSD/OS 2.1 system. It works quite well, except for a small problem I'm
> having. I've configured in the queue_smtp option so that it will deliver
> more messages down the same connection later. However, I've noticed that
> when a queue runnner starts up, it opens many many exim processes -
> typically 60 or more.
What is the nature of the messages? Are there likely to be many
recipients on each message - i.e. are they for a mailing list? If so, I
think I might know how this could happen.
Exim isn't really designed as a queueing MTA.
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