RE: [Exim] Reducing Queue Sizes

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Author: Florian Laws
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To: 'Butler, Chad', 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Reducing Queue Sizes
Butler, Chad wrote:
>
> I currently have Exim configured to check all recipient
> addresses against a list of known-good local parts. Exim then
> routes the messages to our Exchange server. The problem is
> that I routinely see queues of 4000 messages or more resulting
> from spoofed source addresses (Spam). This seems
> to cause the server to stop accepting SMTP connections
> several times a day. Each outage seems to coincide with a
> scheduled queue runner process.


Do you have set split_spool_directory?
This may help your server to cope with long mail queues.

Regards,

Florian