On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > I would much prefer what bulk_mailer does, and sets the maximum number
> > of deliveries per process and will fork another process only if the list
> > contains more addresses then the max per process.
>
> I'm afraid Exim doesn't work like that for single messages. If you want
> that behaviour, then you should leave remote_max_parallel unset, and
> arrange to submit separate messages to Exim, each with your maximum
> number of addresses.
That is what bulk_mailer does, but it does look like remote_max_parallel
allows for some of the parallelism I want for medium to large lists,
and bulk_mailer is enough of a headache to encourage me to use
remote_max_parallel and remote_sort instead of it. (bulk_mailer is
a good way to lose mail.)
-j
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