Hello Gordon,

Thank you for your suggestions.

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> 
> Please don't reply to an existing thread to start a new
> one.  Your  messages end up sorted into someone elses
> discussion.

Did I reply to an existing thread? I'm not sure what you
mean.

> 
> You mentioned that you have a courierfilter program.  Is
> it possible  that this filter is injecting messages into
> the queue in responce to  incoming messages, including its
> own?  If so, the filter would inject  messages into the
> queue as fast as the machine allows.

Actually I believe the initial backup was due to some error
in the courierfilter which I did not identify. However, I
quickly disabled courierfilter and have been running without
it for the past 4 days, and this crazy thing does not let
up! :-(

My latest result from mailq shows 200,000 messages in the
queue!

> 
> I'd suggest stopping courier, moving its queue directory
> aside, creating  a new one, and starting courier back up. 
> Take the opportunity to  examine the queue that's too full
> to determine what source and  destination addresses are
> most common.  You will probably find that some  common
> source has been injecting message that you don't care
> about.  Once you find out what that is, you can remove it
> from the old queue and  re-inject the remaining messages
> into courier's queue.

There are just way too many messages to even try and do some
analysis. I don't know how to "pick" which queue files to
look at, over 200,000 at the moment. I don't really know
what to do. :-(   

I believe the high load is simply due to the fact that there
are just so many messages in the queue that courier is kept
busy working through them.

What I don't understand is why courier seems to be so slow
in processing the messages. I mean, going off the queue and
only delivering 400-600 messages per hour would seem quite
slow to me...?

What exactly does MAXDELS do?

Thanks again for your help...

Ricardo


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