On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Sergey Sysoev wrote:
> Using exim-4.34 I want to deliver all messages to remote servers one
> by one, just one message simultaneously. For this purpose I use the
> following:
>
> remote_max_parallel = 1
> queue_run_max = 1
> queue_run_in_order = true
>
> It works fine when message goes through immediately from the first
> attempt but sometimes after defer for example and using 'sendmail -qf'
> it seems is does not work correctly and more that one simultaneous
> sessions established
>
> Is this right behavour or I have to add something else to config?
1. You need to add
queue_only = true
to prevent immediate delivery of incoming messages.
2. If you obey "exim -qf" it will start a queue runner, even if there is
one already running. "queue_run_max" applies only to the queue runners
that the daemon starts.
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