Re: [exim] exim 4.67 and queue processing

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Author: Zbigniew Szalbot
Date:  
To: Magnus Holmgren
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim 4.67 and queue processing

Hello,

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:07:58 +0200, Magnus Holmgren
<holmgren@???> wrote:
> On Friday 20 July 2007 23:48, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>> I am using exim 4.67 and have just noticed that - in my case - it no
> longer
>> picks up queued emails belonging to the same domain when I deliver an
> email
>> manually by using exim -d -M [MESSAGE_ID].
>
> I'm actually not sure that it's supposed to do that (at least the spec,
> chapter 5, doesn't say that it will). I think what can happen is that if
> there are one or more (which can happen when there are many messages
> queued)
> queue runners running when a message is successfully delivered using exim
> -M,
> the retry record is cleared and one of the queue runners very soon pick

up
>
> the rest of the messages and it will look like they were all delivered in
> one
> batch.


Thanks Magnus - when I now think about it, it seems quite a likely
scenario.

Best regards,

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Zbigniew Szalbot