On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
Hey anyone here a sendmail pro? Does anyone know what exactly the mqueue
is used for on sendmail? Is it a queue of both incoming and outgoing
mail or just for incoming? I am seeing the queue get pretty big on a
box. But before I dig deep and check all the settings I just wanted some
feedback from the borg collective :-)
The answer here is "It depends". The queue can be for both incoming and
outgoing messages. The best way to look at your queue with sendmail is:
sendmail -bp
This will list each message, and the reason it is in the queue.
Generally, in sendmail if you have a large amount of messages in the
queue, I would put the culprit at mainly spam messages being in the queue.
Are you using something like MailScanner or SpamAssassin to help process
messages before they are delivered? What is your setup?
We recently had to switch away from sendmail due to the cumbersome nature
of blacklist_recipients, etc.
Now running on a system of Postfix + MySQL + MailScanner + SpamAssassin +
ClamAV and it is much smoother.
Christopher Fisk
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