Re: [Exim] 1000 bcc email slow - why?

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] 1000 bcc email slow - why?
One of my users is sending email with 1000 bcc: recipients. This user has no command line access. His messages
take over and hour to start. It seems as if it's waiting to do something (DNS?) before sending. Whatever it's
doing - I want to turn it off.

Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > When I send a message to a large number of people the message will sit
> > there - apparently doing nothing - for a long time. Generally 30 minutes
> > for 250 names. Then - it wakes up and delivers these messages very fast.
>
> Is this not just being fed to the queue? The half-hour delay would appear
> to indicate this. (the normal runtime option to sendmails on systems the
> world over is -q30m). If it is, should you not call exim -qf once your
> message has been submitted?
>
> MBM
>
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