Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: Exim, Users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim has a bad queue handling?
On 21/10/06, Jörg Sommer <joerg@???> wrote: > Hi,
>
> 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.
Is there a more detailed explanation of that problem?
Philip often states that Exim's delivery model was designed for an
always-connected situation where most of the mail is deliverable on
the first attempt. There was certainly no concept of business-as-usual
deliberate deferral (of which greylisting is an example) around then.
It's not trivial to tune Exim's retry mechanism to optimize delivery
under greylisting I guess.
> 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?
