Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Conrad Wood wrote:
>
> > I often have to relay >10,000 messages. Exim starts to queue at some
> > point (I can hardly send out 10000 emails rightaway ;) )
> > However, the queuerunner seems to process only one message after the
> > other.
>
> So, run more than one queue runner!
that`s what I tried, but if one queue runner is already active the
second exits and logs "the spool directory is locked".
>
> > I rather see exim fork of say 100 processes and process the queue with
> > all of them.
>
> There is nothing to stop you running a script that obeys "exim -q" 100
> times if you want Exim to do this. Or set queue_run_max=100 and have the
> daemon start queue runners every 30 seconds or whatever.
>
> [All this assumes you have 10,000 messages, and not one message
> addressed to 10,000 recipients, which is *not* the way to do it.]
It *is* 10k different messages (slightly customized ones, names/footers
etc)
>
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