Re: [exim] large queues

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Peter D. Gray wrote:
>
> > Hmmmmmmmm.... would it be possible to simply rename the -H files
> > to -F when a message is frozen. That way it would be fast
> > to ignore frozen messages without the overhead of an open
> > and read.
>
> That is an interesting idea, which I have noted. However, it isn't all
> that simple because everything that scans queues, including eximon, exim
> -bp, etc, would have to be upgraded to understand it.
>
> Even if that were done, though, there is a flaw in this plan. Remember
> that *sometimes* when a frozen message is encountered, it *is* processed
> as a result of auto_that, timeout_frozen_after, and
> ignore_bounce_errors_after. Something other than a simple -F would be
> needed to encode the time of freezing.

Just a thought, you could process frozen messages after processing all
non-frozen messages.

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