On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:53:28 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

On Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 09:39 AM, J C Lawrence wrote:

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Exim for instance will defer deliveries if more than N messages are received in a single connection. As a result, you typically get no outbound deliveries going on during a qrunner broadcast.

IMHO, I consider that seriously broken.

It can also be viewed as an advantage. Given a large inbound mail load, Exim throttles itself to try and be maximally available/responsive for any other large mail events that might happen synchronously. This is a seemingly fairly standard philosophy of Exim's: Make sure you can always play nice.

Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

Neither did I.

-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows