Edward
Which queue are you referring to:
the outbound (post MailScanner) queue
or
the inbound (pre MailScanner) queue.
Do you things on the inbound Exim instance like reject non-valid
addresses???? I'm dropping a lot of email this way.
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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org]
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> Behalf Of Edward Jakosalem
> Sent: 22 March 2007 11:47
> To: exim-users
> Subject: [exim] MailScanner/Exim Long Queue Delay
>
> Hi there,
> This maybe a bit off topic but our of desperation, I am sending it
anyway.
> I have been searching in the MailScanner and Exim archives for a
> solution to my problem. I have found some suggestions but none of them
> worked. So here it is.
> I have 3 incoming mail gateways hosting about 60K users in multiple
> domains. Each process a max of 200K messages a day. For the last
> months, these pesky spams have been pestering our servers causing long
> delays in the delivery of emails. I have no choice but to free up the
> queue using exim -q.
> Anyway I read that with splitting the spool directory will somewhat
> improve the server's performance. Well I tried that yesterday and was
> successful only with setting that up. The problem is that emails only
> get stored in the queue but not being sent out. There is no unusual
> message in my logs. I know there is something wrong because emails get
> delivered when I do exim -q. Has anyone actually got this
> split_spool_dir to work with MailScanner already? I got my
> instructions from the MailScanner website so I assumed it was going to
> work but I was wrong. And sadly no troubleshooting tips nor faqs about
> this.
> I'm running a dual P4 3.2GHz / 2GB RAM server with MailScanner
> 4.58.9/exim4.66/MySQL/SpamAssassin/F-Prot/ClamAv.
> And lastly since exim doesn't perform at it's best witl high queues,
> what are the best workarounds for this (except for shifting MTAs of
> course).
>
> Any help/suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Edward C. Jakosalem
> jakosalem@???
>
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