Bug#308323: exim4-daemon-heavy: sometimes splits mail between alternative MXs for no good reason

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 308323@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 22 May 2005 10:48:38 +0200


Hi,

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:28:33PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:19:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I suspect the following behavior: Whenever a new message is generated,
> > a delivery process is usually forked immediately which delivers the
> > message. This might be your behavior here.
> 
> This is on `sendmail -v -q', so I doubt it. It actually forks into two
> delivery processes, each delivering to each its MX.

I need to see logs. An exim queue runner will always wait for one
delivery process to finish before the next one is spawned.

If you want to have e-mail delivered down a single SMTP session, see
the docs whether the -qq option might be what you need.

Greetings
Marc

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