I dont process much other mail on this server at all. almost all (about
98%) of the lines when I type 'mailq' are labeled as 'done'. From what I
understand this means that the message has been delivered to some of the
recipients, but those 'done' lines wont be cleared out of the queue until
the message is delivered to *all* of the recipients. Is this actually the case?
That leaves about 1-2% of the messages in the queue as defered. Please
correct me if I am incorrect or heading in the wrong direction, I am very
new at this.
The traffic on the list I am running runs about 75-100 posts per day.
thanks in advance for any suggestions.....
-scott
>Something is screwed up. ezmlm generates one message per post, not one
>per recipient. 20K queued messages come from somewhere else (do you
>process a lot of other mail?)
>
>If you don't saturate concurrency, and there are no pointers in the log
>(a la "memory exhausted - can't fork"), then there is nothing to push
>through. You queue is full of messages that are deferred. This is
>normal for a busy system, i.e. when you handle e.g. 20 K messages/day
>and 14% are deferred for > queue life (more commonly 50 K messages and
>10% deferred for varying amounts of time). If you handle much less mail
>that that, you have some network or config problem (see log).
>If you're an open relay, your system may be busy due to spam :-(
>
>ezmlm may generate a lot of messages in one circumstance: You migrate a
>list from e.g. majordomo (no automated bounce handling), then run your
>list the first time. A large fraction of bad messages bounce. After
>about 11 days, ezmlm will send a warning message to all of these.
>
>Another fraction will be "permanently" deferred. They come back to
>ezmlm after 7 days. After another 11 days ezmlm sends warnings. These
>warnings will be deferred as well. Still, that's at most one per
>subscriber, i.e. << 1800.
>
>
>-Sincerely, Fred
>
>(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
>
