50 minutes later it has 5 running and its working great =) Magnus Holmgren-3 wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:38, altendew wrote: >> My mail queue currently says.. >> >> "There are currently 7722 messages in the mail queue." >> >> These arnt spam they are just unsent messages. Is there any option in >> Exim >> to make it send these out faster, my server can handle a bigger load. >> Does >> exim send one out at a time, or does it have multiple spools? > > Exim by default makes a delivery attempt right away after receipt. If > several > messages were received over the same connection, all are delivered in > parallel. Queue runners, however, deliver one message at a time, but if > the > same message has many recipients, they are delivered to in parallel, up to > the limit set by remote_max_parallel. If one queue runner isn't done going > through the queue by the time it's time to start the next, there can be > many > queue runners working at the same time, up to the limit set by > queue_run_max. > > So, you can do the following: > > * Start queue runners more often (the interval is set with the -q<time> > command line option; see chapter 5 of the Exim specification). > * Increase queue_run_max or even set it to 0 (meaning unlimited). > * Increase remote_max_parallel (if messages have more than two > recipients). > > Watch out so that resource usage doesn't go overboard. > > -- > Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) > > "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for > Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans > > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ >
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