riddle solved ;) my own stupidness prevented me from seeing the light.
I was writing all messages from that ip-range to one file for testing ;)
and
it was the delivery file which was locked, not the queuedirectory...
(grmblllsdfds grrrrr)
Please excuse my ignorance and thanks for your help!!
Conrad Wood wrote:
> We run mailing lists on behalf of our clients.
> If there is a new announcement which they want to mail to their
> subscribers (! note this is *not* spam ;) )
> 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. That isn`t really satisfying, because
> a dns lookup might take a few seconds and is blocking.
> I rather see exim fork of say 100 processes and process the queue with
> all of them.
> I tried remote_max_parallel (which appears to only work during the
> initial submission to exim)
> and queue_run_max is also set to 100.
> why do I get exim to deliver these more efficently?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Conrad Wood
