On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:55:08AM -0400, Dale Miracle wrote:
> I noticed a lot more e-mail activity lately and noticed people are
> sending to 5, 10, 15 people at a time. You get a couple people doing
> that and the 20 connection limit in qmail's smtpd is pegged until it can
> deliver the mail. I went through the log again looked for the date's
> and times he couldn't send mail and noticed that there pending remote
> deliveries of 20/20, 20/20, 20/20 . Which was odd because the number of
> deliveries never went down. I looked through log and found that a quite
> a few people had sent e-mail's to 5 and 10 people at a time and some of
> those mail servers were deferring connections. I noticed the it was
> possible that he was trying to send at a time when the queue was 20/20
> and when he waited a minute or so the queue went down to 19/20 which
> allowed him to send.
>
> If this is so can i raise the number of connections? I don't like
> re-compiling binaries once I got everything working fine, tempting fate
> it to easy. ;)
If you review the man page for qmail-smtpd, it will explain the usage of
"concurrencyremote" which should solve your problem.
Ben
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