Re: [exim] Host-based retrying problem

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Christian Gregoire wrote:

> The problem is that when A gets a host error from B for some reason,
> all messages destined to B are queued. And when retry time has come, A
> sends all messages to B at once, whose load average rises, so leading
> Sendmail to refuse connections. So emails get queued on A ....

Reduce the retry time, and start queue runners frequently.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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