Autor: Marcin Owsiany Data: Para: Exim users mailing list Asunto: Re: [exim] Does "deliver_time" work for deferrals?
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:29:36AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>
> > Does "deliver_time" also cause DT=<time> to be added to the "==" log
> > lines as well? The NewStuff would suggest that it only does that for
> > "=>" lines, but I would like to make sure (I'm not running >= 4.32 yet).
>
> An experiment would have given you the answer, which is "no".
Unfortunately I can't upgrade right now only to test that. Thanks for
the answer.
> > If it does not log that for deferrals, could it be made to do that,
> > please? The problem is that on my site often all queue runners are up,
> > but the delivery rate is low. So I found out that I could use DT to find
> > out which messages are taking long to deliver. However messages for
> > which deliveries fail temporarily block the queue runners in the same
> > way, so I would also need their times to get a full view.
>
> I can wishlist this,
Please do.
> but there is a technical problem in that the field
> that is used to return the delivery time by the transport is the same
> field that is used for an error code in failing cases. I am loath to
> expand the per-address data structure because it is already quite large,
> and this matters when you have 1000 addresses in a message (something
> that does happen).
Oh come on, a few kilobytes for one such message can't be that bad :-)
