I will try splitting the spool to see if that helps. I also tried setting
some of the verification options, and that seems to have helped immensely.
I guess I should have waited one more day before I sent that message.
Thanks for your help.
-Chad Butler
-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Laws [mailto:fl@dmc.de]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:36 AM
To: 'Butler, Chad'; 'exim-users@???'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Reducing Queue Sizes
Butler, Chad wrote:
>
> I currently have Exim configured to check all recipient
> addresses against a list of known-good local parts. Exim then
> routes the messages to our Exchange server. The problem is
> that I routinely see queues of 4000 messages or more resulting
> from spoofed source addresses (Spam). This seems
> to cause the server to stop accepting SMTP connections
> several times a day. Each outage seems to coincide with a
> scheduled queue runner process.
Do you have set split_spool_directory?
This may help your server to cope with long mail queues.
Regards,
Florian
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