On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Marc Haber wrote:
> Why not -qq<time>?
For the reasons given in my subsequent posting.
> Debian does both: -q<time>, and a regular cron job that invoked exim
> -q to have messages delivered even when there is no exim daemon
> (running from inetd, or exim died).
Exim doesn't die. :-)
That loses control over the maximum number, unless your cron job has a
means of controlling it. If you are in a situation where messages take a
very long time to deliver, you maybe don't want a huge number of
slowly running queue runners to build up, do you? The default value for
queue_run_max is 5.
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