Peter Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>We have a list that, when it goes out, pushes our mail server's
>qmail-remote processes to its max, 180. At points, almost every single one
>is "connecting" to juno.com, effectively disallowing any other mail from
>getting through. juno.com, meanwhile, is timing out.
Hmm. That's not supposed to happen. See "man qmail-tcpto".
You could use a virtual domain to deliver the juno mail to a maildir,
and deliver that via maildir2smtp.
>Is the best way to deal with this simply to drop timeoutconnect to
>something less than 60 (seconds)? How low is too low? It seems like it
>shouldn't take more than 10 or 15 seconds for the initial connection;
>after that, there's probably either a network connectivity problem or the
>remote server is bogged down, right?
It'd be nice if qmail had an initialtimeoutconnect, which you could
set aggressively to zip through lists quickly, while subsequent
attempts would wait a little longer.
-Dave
