Re: [exim] large queues

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] large queues
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> Exim was never designed to operate efficiently with large queues. The
> whole philosophy was to move mail quickly without hanging on to it. In
> our environment, fewer than 5% of messages have to be retried. (See
> chapter 3 of my book. Or you should have come on my course last week.
> Oh, I see you are in .au; a bit far. :-) Of course, 5% of our volume is
> nowadays a lot more messages than it was 11 years ago when I first
> thought of Exim.


In the last 10 days our central relays have handled about 330,000 messages
per day of which only 4300 were deferred (average about 11 retries each),
and they typically have about 9,000 messages queued. However I've tried to
minimize undeliverable email.

Tony.
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