Author: Jasen Betts Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] who starts the delivery process?
On 2022-12-26, Askhat Tokabay via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote: > Helo
> I found in the documentation:
> Delivery processes may be started as a
> result of a message’s arrival, by a queue runner process,
> or by an administrator using the -M option.
>
> The question is the following:
> Can you tell me who starts the delivery process
> when a message arrives?
Usually message arrival, but there are settigns that can disable that
in certain conditions and then one of the others is needed to cause
delivery.
> Or how does the delivery process
> know that a message has arrived?
The process that receives the message fork()s a process to do the
delivery and passes it the exim_id (etc)
