Re: [exim] queue runner on OS X

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] queue runner on OS X
On 18 January 2011 21:00, Seth Dillingham <seth.dillingham@???> wrote:
> I had an exim server running for years without trouble (I thought), and only
> discovered with the hardware finally failed that there were thousands of
> messages sitting in its queue. We had spent a lot of time setting this
> server up, and yet somehow never came across anything telling us that the
> queue would just sit there, unprocessed, if a queue runner wasn't explicitly
> configured.
>
> The hardware failure was a good reason (excuse) to start over from scratch.
> Some answers on this list helped us get the new server up and running
> smoothly...
>
> Except there is still no queue runner. (At least I knew about the problem
> this time, so I've been running it manually every day.)
>
> I've looked for guides to setting up a queue runner, but I don't see one.


If all else fails, you could try a skim through the Exim docs.....

http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch05.html

-q<time> is a good option to look at.

Peter