Hi everybody, i'm forwarding mail to external addresses via /etc/courier/aliases. from time to time mail for one of these accounts doesn't get accepted. this seems to coincide with courier waking up and trying to send all the messages in the mail queue at once at the same time. i don't see anything in the logs related to the delivery attempt of the inbound message and the sending SMTP server gets a read timeout while waiting for courier.
the mailq contains some hundreds of messages at times because of other accounts that are aliased to gmx accounts, with the gmx mail server limiting the number of e-mails it accepts per hour. in turn courier is trying to re-send these messages every time it wakes up which takes a couple of minutes. since the gmx mail server blocks my courier server for a couple of hours (3 or four, IIRC) this re-sending occurs quite often. my questions: * is it probable that these frequent re-sending attempts are the reason why courier is not accepting incoming messages? * what other possibilities are there? * how do i configure the re-sending / shutdown+wakeup interval? * since most of the forwarded mail is spam i am using the following setup to filter it out (actually i'm testing it only on some accounts): alias to local account, filtering spam with spam-assassin and maildrop to local folder, forwarding the rest in the mailfilter script to the destinations. i don't particularly like this forwarding from the mailfilter script since for example it's a bit awkward to correctly forward bcc'ed addresses and it doesn't feel quite the canonical way. any suggestion on how to improve my setup? i'm using courier version 0.53.3 on debian. thanks a lot for advise/suggestions/help, Volker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
