Re: [exim] Why are some messages just being queued?

On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:20:01 +0100 Mike Grice <mgrice@???> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:26 +0100, Phil Chambers wrote:
> > I am running exim-4.50.
> >
> > I am running an exim server to handle routing of mail submitted by my users (20,000
> > of them). they are either sent out over the Internet or passed to our IMAP/POP
> > server for local delivery (both by SMTP).
> >
> > I have recently noticed that sometimes exim is just queueing messages. I have
> > noticed this with my own messages (both remote and local delivery). There is no
> > indication in the log as to why (I have the delay_delivery log selector on by
> > default). I can kick the delivery using eximon, so the exim process which handled
> > receipt has finished with the message. Most messages are processed on the fly.
> >
> > There is nothing unusual about the messages; they have a single recipient and are
> > small. At the times when I have seen this the load average has been very low and
> > the number of exim processes has been well below smtp_accept_max, etc. The only
> > queue-related option I can see is smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=10, which is not
> > applicable with these messages.
> >
> > Any ideas? Can I get exim to log a reason?
>
> Hi,
>
> If the message is still in the queue, exim -Mvl MESSAGE_ID will give
> tell you what exim has done with it so far... but that should be hidden
> in the logs somewhere (it's just easier to see this way).
>
> Cheers
> Mike

As I said, there is no indication in the log as to why the message is queued.
The only entry in the log is the single line showing the arrival of the message.
Several minutes later (when the queue runner picks it up) there is the line for the
delivery followed by the "Completed" line.

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster@???)
University of Exeter