Re: [exim] Exim has a bad queue handling?

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006, SeattleServer.com wrote:
>> on a private mailing list, someone raised the claim Exim has a bad queue
>> handling and relies on delivering the mail in the first attempt. The
>> discussion was about greylisting and "using" the queue of the remote site.

>> Speaking accross the board, is it true that Exim has bad (it need more
>> resources) queue handling? For Exim on the sender site, is greylisting a
>> problem?
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> I think that the ideal situation would be to use exim still for the MSA
> (accept authenticated connections from client), but then use qmail to route
> all outbound E-mail, both from our servers as well as the MSA. But that's an
> ideal I live without for now.

Would using qmail as a smarthost help? Not sure if overhead wouldn't
outweigh the benefits, though.