On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Doco bug report, exim-4.40:
>
> Section 14.23 "Alphabetical list of main options", in the
> description of remote_max_parallel. It refers to the
> configuration option queue_smtp. There is no such option.
> Perhaps queue_smtp_domains was intended.
Indeed it was. This typo was already noticed, but thanks for the report.
> Question / Wishlist item, exim-4.43:
>
> Occasionally, several people send large emails. These then
> jam up the system until they are sent. It would be nice
> to restrict the number of queue running processes that handle
> large messages, or alternatively reserve a number of queue
> runner processes for small messages. Is this possible now?
> If not, could a wishlist item be added?
You can always arrange for large messages not to be delivered
immediately, but using control=queue_only in an ACL. Such messages will
then be delivered only by queue runners. You can then put something in
the routers that delivers them only if the load is low, or overnight, or
whatever. Or, by using a macro in the config file, you could arrange to
deliver them only by certain manually started queue runners - and get
cron to run one of those at intervals of your choice. In other words,
there are lots of ways this could be tackled.
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