On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:29:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 05-Apr-2000 Bryan White wrote:
> >
> > Any idea how long till they will be back up? Is there someplace to find
> > this information. I have been struggling with mails queues clogged with
> > messages for yahoo.com all day. I am on the virge of rejecting new messages
> > to the yahoo domain.
>
> I have the same problem here - connections to yahoo.com mailservers are
> timing out, resulting in a significant number of my concurrencyremote
> connections beibg unusable. Is there a mechanism for shuffling these
> messages off to the side until yahoo comes back? How about control/serverisdead
> so that email to a broken server is passed over when the queue is
> processed. Alternatively, a means of limiting the number of outbound
> connections to a server is something I've been thinking about for awhile -
And so have others. Check the archives as very serious discussions on this matter
have been had on numerous occasions. It's not an easy problem and it's not easily
changes in qmail.
One hack you could do is to place an smtproutes entry that fails very quickly
so your qmail-remote slots aren't consumed for long. Perhaps:
# echo 'yahoo.com:[127.0.0.2]' >>/var/qmail/control/smtproutes
Regards.
