On 29 Nov 2005, at 22:39, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:45:23 +0000, Ian Eiloart <iane@???>
> wrote:
>> I've tried this to flush the queue:
>>
>> exim -Rf hotmail.com
>>
>> hoping that the queue runner would latch on to an open server and
>> deliver a whole load of the emails. Is that a vain hope? Will the
>> runner try to establish a new connection for each message?
>
> Maybe it helps to try a queue run with -qq so that routing is done
> first, and all messages destined for hotmail are already routed and
> can be delivered down the one pipe, should you get hold of it.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
Ah, yes. That's great - thanks! I used
"exim -qqRf hotmail.com"
And that works nicely! Last night I ran 16 processes with
"exim -Rf hotmail.com", and that did get the queue down, but much
more slowly.
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Ian Eiloart
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