Re: Exim4: disablign delay in flushing mail queues

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@sjki.be>]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the first
> few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do 
> /etc/init.d/exim4 restart.
> Any way to disable this behaviour with exim?
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You can set a shorter time for a queuerunner to be started. Normally 
this is set at 30 minutes (-q30m). If you take a smaller number for that 
the queue should be cleaned quicker.
Or you can manually start a queuerunner (or several): qrun &
Check the exim site and the docs to see what options are dealing with 
the number of messages that will be handled in 1 go.
I had to actually tune my system to only take 10 as it would slow my 
server to a crawl (spamassassin, clamv and so on) whenever a huge load
of mails came in.

Regards,
Benedict

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