Author: Drav Sloan Date: To: J??rg Sommer CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Decrease retry time for locked files
Jrg Sommer wrote: > But how to specify the case of a locked file? I didn't find a matching
> error spec in the documentation.
The "locked file" is because another exim process (most likely queue
runner) is already attempting to deliver that email. Which means
those two delivery methods (to local-bsmtp) are taking a long time
to process. Uping your retry time will not improve the situation
(and could quite likely worsen the situation as more proccess attempt
to deliver the same locked message - and hence more logging of the
same error messages).
What you need to do is do a manual delivery of one of those messages
with debugging (with exim -d -M <exim-message-id>) to identify where
the proccess is slow and remedy that.
