Re: [exim] exim error message

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:53:55PM +1100, Paul Webb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running exim and spam assassin and encounter this error every
> so often. The mail server processes approximately 1000 messages per hour
> without trouble but once it hits about the 2000+ messages per hour
> messages start to bounce to sender. I've attached my router and
> transport sections and the bounce message with debugging turned on.
>

Just a thought, I recently had to change the default Exim configuration due
to excessive MAILER-DAEMON responses from non blacklisted hosts[1] (i.e. they
were not redirected to spamd). As my users are using various spamassassin
configurations (some more correctly configured than others), Exim would not
finish a queue run due to lengthy local deliveries.

By turning off -q30m, and telling Exim to deliver straight to the queue when
a certain number of connections were reached or exceeded (and then manually
running the queue at intervals via cron), resources were no longer
exhausted.

Perhaps your problem can be resolved in a similar manner?

Tor

[1] Due to a valid email address finding its way into spam databases.