Re: [exim] Thought exim did this by default..

On 08/04/2009, B. Cook <bcook@???> wrote:
>
>
> Eli wrote:
> >> These are messages destined for '@gmail.com' if I were to manually
> >> attempt a delivery (-v -d -M 1Lra2g-000KKM-Sd) it will deliver that one
> >> email only..
> >
> > If you're doing it via CLI and specify just a single message to be
> > delivered, it will deliver just that single message. On the upside though,
> > if there was a delivery problem that caused the rest of the emails for that
> > domain to be delayed, upon successful delivery of a single message, it will
> > make exim realize (on next queue runner) that it can deliver to that domain
> > and it will attempt delivery of pending messages (based on router/transport
> > settings).
> >
>
> Well thats what I was hoping for..
> >> What is the setting that says 'attempt to deliver all emails destined
> >> for "domain" over a single connection'..
> >
> > You can set this on your SMTP transport; check out the
> > connection_max_messages setting in the docs. It defaults to 500, so it
> > should indeed be doing it "by default". I just noticed also it says you can
> > use this setting via CLI with the -oB flag.
> >
> > Eli.
> >
> >
>
> Maybe I'm not doing it right or missing something..
>
> [/usr/local/etc/exim]# 195 > exiqgrep -r frontiernet.net -i -c
> 3 matches out of 3976 messages
>
> [/usr/local/etc/exim]# 196 > exim -oB2 -C configure -M 1LraPt-000IeA-7t
>
> [/usr/local/etc/exim]# 197 > exiqgrep -r frontiernet.net -i -c
> 2 matches out of 3975 messages
>
> So I thought that should have tried to deliver 2 messages in one smtp
> connection.. looks like it only did one.

You told it to deliver a single message (-M <message-id>), so that's
what it did. If you want it to consider more than one message, either
list the message-ids with -M, or more usually, run the queue with one
of the -q options.

Peter

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