On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jeffrey Starin <jeffrey.starin@???> wrote: > Hello All,
>
> Just starting out on Exim and a bit confused as to the purpose of queues.
> If my email campaign software is firing off outbound emails to the Exim MTA
> and Exim subsequently connects to remote SMTP servers to deliver the mail,
> then after smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 10 starts dropping them in the
> queue for delivery later, what's the purpose of this?
Quoting from the Exim spec (Chapter 14, Main Configuration)
"This helps to limit the number of Exim processes when a server
restarts after downtime and there is a lot of mail waiting for it on
other systems."
> It seems to me delivery issues present when Exim is making direct remote
> SMTP connections to the mail servers will also be present when the queue
> runner starts later and delivers all the messages in the queue anyway.
You can then control the max number of queue runners to hold that load down.
...Todd
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