This sounds like a very real possibility, I have a lot of mail go = through this server. Is there a how-to or something saying how to optimize = IMail?
Thanks again, Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] Re: Mail stops processing >Things are getting balled up again...I'm up to 1500 now with... > >D51D932E99 4662 Mon Oct 27 13:30:09 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (connect to 204.189.82.5[204.189.82.5]: Connection >refused) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The 204.189.82.5 address is my main IMail server. Any ideas? Imail is very easily overrun and starts refusing mail from postfix. if this is not due to high volume from postfix, but just bad performance = in=20 Imail, you have to do all the imail tuning/optimization tricks, which=20 includes, amont lots of other things, turning off MS Index service for = the=20 partitions hold the imail queue and mailboxes. Len >Dan > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =3D >On >Behalf Of Chris Scott >Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:50 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [IMGate] Re: Mail stops processing > > >Dan Spray wrote: > > > I understand that these time outs are spam. But is there a way to = =3D >clean > > them out of the queue and keep them out? I have tried deleting all = =3D >the > > messages in the queue and more just come right back. There are 700+ = =3D >of =3D3D > > them > > in the almost all the time. > >=3D20 >Either block by IP or domain name. One one server we don't do = filtering =3D > >except for those servers/domains which repeatedly give connection =3D >refused or > >timed out. In this case, I go through the mailq output looking for =3D >messages > >from MAILER-DAEMON and take the domain name of the sender and add it to = =3D >a=3D20 >reject map. A bit of scripting and this could be made much quicker. > >Also, see why the bouces are being generated. If you are using this as = =3D >a=3D20 >frontend to IMail, do you export your users to Postfix? This would =3D >allow=3D20 >postfix to do a reject for unknown users instead of bouncing them. > >Keep in mind that on a busy server there will always be a number of =3D >valid=3D20 >connection timed out or rejected messages that aren't the result of = spam =3D > >just varying network issues. > >--=3D20 >Chris Scott >Host Orlando, Inc >http://www.hostorlando.com/
