Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

[Mark]

> processed those 1500 messages in less than 30 minutes.  However, it left
> behind another handfull of stuck qmail-remote processes.  Other messages
> were undeliverable and left in the queue, and still others were sent back to
> sender with permanent errors.

What do you mean by "stuck"? Do you mean they *never* go away - even
after a day or two? As others have pointed out, a slow delivery can
take a long, long time. That's not necessarily a problem, that's just
the way it is.

To find out a bit more about what a "stuck" qmail-remote is doing, you
may want to ktrace it and show us the output. Find the process id of the
stuck qmail-remote and then as root go: ktrace -p thepid

Leave that running for at least an hour and show us the output. Yes, I
mean at least an hour.


Regards.