Re: [Exim] large retry and wait-remote_smtp files

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Paul
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] large retry and wait-remote_smtp files
Paul writes on 12/11/2003 8:23 PM:

> Thanks for the quick reply! Does exim_tinydb simply resort/compress the db
> file? Is this safe to do whilst the server is running and active exim


exim_tidydb - it cleans out old / stale retry entries.

And yes it is safe to do on a running exim server

> We retry queue data every 5 hours. This seems reasonable doesn't it? Our
> queue contains over 1 milllion files. Any mail older than 10 days is auto
> purged from the queue.


Use split_spool_directory (or whatever the 3.3x equivalent is)

    srs