Mail Queue Exim

[msilva1985]

Hi, how to can reduce mails queued? We have 4500 mails accounts and sometimes causes delays in the receipt of mails.

run /usr/sbin/exim -bpc and throw as a result: 3883961 :S

This is because sometimes the service is saturated and does not attend the reception?

That solution we could implement?

Thanks,

regards,

Matias

 

[nobaloney]

With numbers that high it's likely your system is being used for outgoing spam or getting lots of incoming spam. Finding the problem would be best.

Read your logs; figure out why exim isn't delivering email.

You can make the maximum time in the queue an hour or less before freezing, and then leaving it frozen an hour or less before deleting; this can be done in exim.conf.

However it will result in the loss of most good email as well, since with a queue so large your good mail is taking over an hour to clear and get delivered as well.

Or read Brad's Exim CheatSheet for advice on managing the queue yourself.

We solve problems such as this for our clients, but it can get expensive. This past week we spent 10 hours clearing queues on two systems.

Jeff