> Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any way to discard any Email the mailer daemon generates?
>
> No easy, built-in way, but then again, you shouldn't need it. queue
> management in qmail is completely automatic.
>
>
> Your system is misconfigured. What split value are you using? What
> filesystem on what operating system? What kind of disk/array is the queue on?
> If your system bogs down because of the number of (basically inactive)
> messages in the queue, you've configured your system with values which are
> inappropriate for the load you're trying to serve.
The system is dual processor Sparc 450, and an A1000 storage array. Qmail is
running stock standard, as Dan intended. :)
The queue was running on it's own bit of the array, multi spindle, mirrored.
I've since moved it to /tmp, performance has gotten much nicer since then,
almost a system crash will eat it. (see below for why I don't really care)
Also, a large spam hit might eat the machine's RAM/swap(which I care about a
bit more) (512 Meg of RAM, 256 of spool)
The system delivers locally about 250,000 Email/day.
>
> > Or maybe some way to limit the 4 day delivery time to maybe 18-24 hours.
>
> qmail's default queuelifetime is 7 days. You can lower it to whatever you
> want. However, reducing it too far will cause mail to bounce which would
> otherwise be delivered successfully.
The only deliveries this server does is local, which I hope wouldn't take more
than a few seconds, anything in the queue for remote delivery is a bounce.
(which is why I don't care if the queue is lost, since all I lose is bounces)
>
> Charles
> --
Greg
