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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