Re: [exim] Controlling the number of deliveries

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:04:22PM +0100, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> One alternative is a cron job that runs every minute instead of a queue
> runner.
>
> Something to the effect of :-
>
> for i in `exiqgrep -i | head -n 100`
> do
> exim -M $i
> done
>
> This will process the oldest 100 emails in the queue.

but beware that such cron jobs can start to pile up if
they take more than a minute to run....

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