Re: [exim] Immediate and queued SMTP delivery.

On Thursday 06 October 2005 14:33, Peter Bowyer wrote:

> > "queue_domains = example.org" and "queue_smtp_domains = example.org"
> > have the same effect *unless* there is a possibility of delivering a
> > message to something@??? by other means than SMTP -- right?
>
> No, not quite - with queue_smtp_domains the routing is done when the
> message is received, so the later queue runner knows where it needs to
> send each message without re-running the routing on each one
> separately - so it can take advantage of an already-open connection to
> send each subsequent message. Useful if you have a lot of messages
> destined for a single remote server (esp. smarthost).

Very useful, thanks.