Consistently large exim queue

[cmdln]

My exim queue is just huge all the time. I have started pruning mail from null senders.

exiqgrep -i -f '^<>$' | xargs -n 1 exim -Mrm

While that has helped a bit my queue is still pretty large. I do see some mail in the queue waiting for delivery to local accounts that do not exist. What do I need to be looking for in my config to make those messages bounce automatically?


Thanks

 

[picoleto]

Have you already tried changing some of the settiings within your exim.conf?

The exim conf default is pretty sucky. You might want to take a look at the below settings and change them to something more reasonable.

auto_thaw = 6d
ignore_bounce_errors_after = 7d
timeout_frozen_after = 8

 

[cmdln]

adding sender verify callouts seems to have done the most good for my queue.

It has gone from an unwieldy 3k to a peek around 300 when sending 15K outbound mails. Most of the time it seems to hover < 30.