On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> Those messages have been delivered to the MTA. If the list has just 3
> eligible recipients, that looks backlogged but otherwise normal. If
> the messages haven't been delibvered, check the MTA (mailq or
> whatever).
Here it is almost 2 hours later and those messages are still not out yet!
I forgot to mention in all of this that regular email to and from the
system works fine. Emails to and from this Gmail account go back and
forth in just a few seconds.
> Your MTA is checking too much during SMTP from Mailman. It shouldn't be
> doing address verification or even domain verification on remote
> recipients.
Hmmm, now, this is one thing that does change on my system. I use
Postfix and do helo checking with a file of spammers to reject. I
add a few entries to that file every month (maybe 3 or 4 at most). At
present there are only 72 entries in that file. I also do general
RBL checking which could well be also taking place from MM to Postfix.
I'll have to go have a look. But it has been like this for years -
at least 3 years since I last went through my Postfix config and
tweaked it. The only change since then is spammer domains going into
my helo_access file.
> What is in Mailman's out/ and retry/ queues at this point? The out/
> queue is almost certainly backlogged.
mail...@heimat$ ls qfiles/in/ | wc -l
8
mail...@heimat$ ls qfiles/out/ | wc -l
332
> You could try moving all the out/ and retry/ queue entries aside and
> then removing the bad addresses from them with the script at
> <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/remove_recips> and then replacing the
> entries a few at a time.
OK, I'll give that a try.
> If the system is still slow, search the faq at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3> for "performance".
Will do. I had been searching on a number of terms, but not that one.
Thanks for your time!
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