Joe,
I am at 6.05a and I am not seeing this issue? I have some heavy lists and when
messages get put into the queue other continue to get sent. I don't have the volume
you do, so maybe it is only affecting heavy volumes???
Grant Griffith
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Joe Wolf / CompuSystems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 06:47:05 -0600
>My Imail server sends a moderate 20,000 messages per day. I also run two
>lists on it. Since upgrading to 6.04 then 6.05a I have had MAJOR problems
>with the queue getting clogged. I have thousands of messages waiting!
>Ipswitch says this is a "known problem"
>
>The problem starts when a message is undeliverable on the first attempt.
>Imail looks to your SMTP settings for how many times to retry and how long
>to wait. The problem is that it STOPS sending other mail until it can
>complete the undeliverable message. If for example you set it to try 48
>times at 30 minute intervals you have effectivly implimented a DoS attack on
>your own server for 24 hours!
>
>To solve this problem I have been forced to reduce my SMTP retries to 2 and
>my Queue Timer to 5 minutes. Since those changes the server has been OK,
>not great, but OK. The problem with these settings is that you get lots of
>bounced mail.
>
>I know we have some larger volume servers represented on this forum. My
>question is what do the high volume guys set their retries and Queue Timer
>to?
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
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