Re: [exim] Exim Timeout.. Mail Queue Backed Up.

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Author: Andrew Rosolino
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Subject: Re: [exim] Exim Timeout.. Mail Queue Backed Up.

The problem is one of my sites has over 60,000 mmembers it tries to send
emails to. Would it be more effective to send 25 emails a minute then them
all at once?

Thanks for the retry rules I will use that.

Dave Evans-10 wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:46:54AM -0700, Andrew Rosolino wrote:
>>
>> Ok we have a serious problem.. there is over 9,000 messages in the mail
>> queue
>> and a lot of them are over 4 days old!! I dont understand why there is
>> messages over 4days in it because we have it set up like so.
>>
>> delay_warning = 100d
>> queue_run_max = 15
>> deliver_queue_load_max = 5
>> auto_thaw = 1d
>> ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2d
>> timeout_frozen_after = 3d
>
> If you want to throw away messages sooner, you need change your retry
> rules:
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html
>
>> So it tried to send the message for 5 minutes and then timedout and kept
>> the
>> message on the list? I am assuming it keeps trying to process these
>> messages
>> and wasteing 5 minutes on each one.. why doesnt it just delete them if
>> they
>> timeout.
>
> Failure to connect is a temporary error, not a permanent error. You'd be
> upset if your legitimate email was deleted after the first delivery
> attempt,
> just because it couldn't connect at that time.
>
>> Or how can I make it timeout after 1 minute instead of 5.
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch30.html#SECID146
> but I really don't recommend changing it.
>
> Maybe a better approach would be to work out why you've got so many
> messages
> in the queue in the first place. Maybe
> http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Policy_controls/Q0744 will help you?
>
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