Re: [exim] Which hardware do you use for your installation?

Brian Blood schrieb:
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Sander Smeenk wrote:
>> One big fat tip for you, free of charge:
>> Exim is not good at dealing with large queues, partly because of
>> the way
>> it keeps state in the db4 file. That's why almost all these platforms
>> have their spool in memory and 'message logging' is turned off (-Mvl
>> doesn't work).
>
>
> This is why we tend to use Postfix for managing outbound email queues.
Just for the record: could you please put it into perspecive? Which is
the queue-size where exim starts showing problems?

Some time ago at exim-users-de some admin reported his queue-problems.
His queue was incredibly big and since everbody knows about exims
large-queue-problems he asked for advice.... IIRC how to fall back to a
second outbound-host if the first one can't deliver instantly,
disk-optimizations, changing number of concurrent queue-runners etc.

Queue-size was 300. Greylisting, unreachable recipients, etc.
In my experience, that size is really no issue for exim. ;-)

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CU,
Patrick.