Bug#515727: exim4-config: running queue on ppp/ip-up hardly delays other ip-up scripts

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-05-06 Sergey Dorofeev <sergey at prodo.ru> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Followup-For: Bug #515727


> When there are messages in queue addressed to domains with
> unresponsible MX servers, runq may take VERY long time.  So others
> scripts in ip-up.d must wait (e.g. adding routes), and taking up
> interface may become unacceptably long.  Easy solution - manually
> adding "&" to end of line which starts runq in /etc/ip-up.d/exim4 so
> queue starts running in background, and ip-up.d continues.  May be
> it contradicts some policy, I don't know, but it solves the problem.
[...]

It is quite some time since /I/ was relying on ip-up/down scripts,
before geting a flatrate. But at that point of time being sure that
exim had finished its job before the ip-up script exited was very
important for me. I kept onlime time minimal, but immediately droping
the connection again after the ip-up scripts (fetching/sending
mail/news) had finished. Just as another point of data.

On a sidenote directly delivering to MXes from a dialup system will
often fail, due to them blocking dialup users.
cu andreas