On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:12:21 -0500, Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
> Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > No, Exim runs the queue in a random order. However the quality of the
> > randomness could be improved, I think.
>
> Not according to the docs...
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_14.html#IX1304
>
> Unless I'm reading that wrong, for a single queue, the queue is run in
> arrival order, while for a split queue, the 62 split subdirs are
> randomized, but within each subdir the queue is run in arrival order.
>
You took the description of 'queue_run_in_order' out of context. If
that option is not set (which is the default), the queue is run in
'arbitrary' (= pseudo-random) order.
Peter
