[Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Andrzej Marecki wrote:

> Hmmm. Unavailability of free slaves may be transient. Don't you think
> a possibility of making a retry could be of any good in this context?

That's true, but if your server is overloaded, queueing won't help.

> All in all, tempfailing - IMVHO - is something bad and should avoided.

I agree.  Increase the maximum number of slaves; if that's not an option,
then the server really is overloaded (or the slaves are taking a long time
for some network-related reason.)

Regards,

David.