Hi Marc (and the list),
thanks for your reply. I figured that the -qxm is the better option.
I also found the reason, why the queue became so huge. The server is
used as an smtp relay for a lot of customers. A lot of other
mailservers use extensive greylisting, so a lot of mails get queued.
As I left exim in it's initial configuration with 5 max runs and a
run every 30 minutes, the queue runs didn't have a chance to trigger
new delivery processes. I changed this to max. 50 runs,
remote_max_parallel to 150 and a run every 5 minutes. After this I
tidied up the queue by deleting old/frozen messages and starting
queue runs from the command line.
These new settings seem to work fine for me. I will keep an eye on it.
Thanks
Felix
P.S.: Greatings delivered :) Hummel Hummel
On 07.09.2006, at 13:00, exim-users-request@??? wrote:
>
> As documented, Philip recommends using -qxm (which Debian does by
> default every 30 minutes) because otherwise the load control
> mechanisms are cancelled. If your system is reasonably large, you
> might want to reduce the queue runner interval.
>
> Greetings to my old hometown
> Marc
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