Re: [EXIM] Delay delivering local mail

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Author: Ben Smithurst
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Delay delivering local mail
Philip Hazel wrote:

> I looked at our mail logs, and the vast majority of messages come in one
> per SMTP session, so I figured that 10 was a reasonable default. Perhaps
> I was being over cautious. What do people think? Should the default be
> higher? The default for smtp_accept_max is 20 and 20 x 10 is 200
> processes; I don't suppose putting it up to 20 (=> max 400 processes)
> would be too disastrous.


Well I still get more than 20 per connection[1], but I suppose any
machine that's permanently connected will rarely get that many. Perhaps
if when you announce them on exim-announce you just mention anything
like this that will change behaviour. (Perhaps you did and I missed it
:-)

[1] lots of busy mailing lists + 10 connections from Demon per day =
a lot of messages per connection.

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