Thank you sir... I'll look into it... Eric
-----Original Message----- From: Philip Hazel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:03 AM To: Eric Goforth Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [exim] Maximum Outbound SMTP connections...??? On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Eric Goforth wrote: > I have just finished looking through all of the specifications for > exim.conf and can't find an option to limit the number of overall > outbound connections.. Is there one? There is no single control for this because Exim operates in a distributed manner using multiple independent processes. > Our system sends in huge waves (like 200 at a time), but I only want it > to deliver a max of 20 simultanously... 1. Set queue_only - then all incoming messages will wait on the queue until a queue runner finds them. 2. Set a limit on the maximum number of queue runners - each one will deliver one message at a time. Arrange to start them fairly frequently. 3. Set remote_max_parallel - this limits the number of connections a single message delivery makes in parallel. If you allow 4 queue runners simultaneously, and set remote_max_parallel to 5, you should never have more than 20 outbound connections. But you may often have less if messages have fewer than 5 recipients. Tweak the numbers as you wish. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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/
