Re: [Exim] Missing Emails - no immediate delivery

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Author: Sander Smeenk
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To: Cheong Ket Vin
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Missing Emails - no immediate delivery
Quoting Cheong Ket Vin (ketvin@???):
> 2003-06-09 15:10:51 19PGnp-0005lQ-00 no immediate delivery: load average 20.02
> 2003-06-09 15:10:45 19PGnj-0005kU-00 no immediate delivery: load average 20.28
>
> This is part of my exim mail server logfile when i tried to send email
> out of a1@??? , the email is not received by the recipients
> and it just end up there.
> Do you guys know what causes the problem here ?


If you read the messages exim writes to it's logfiles, you'd find out
yourself. The load on your machine is high (20.xx), and exim takes care
of not stressing the machine when the load is high already, so it just
queues messages, instead of delivering them immediately.

You'll see that when the load on your box drops to normal values again,
the messages will get delivered.

> and is there any way to tackle it?


You could change the settings that trigger exim into queueing or not
accepting mail at certain loadaverages, but it would be smart to figure
out why the load is so high, and try to fix that.

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