>
> You didn't explicitly answer my question about conf-split, but by "stock
> standard", I'll assume it's the default of 23. This is probably too low for
> your system -- if you have five or ten thousand bounce messages sitting in the
> queue, you're getting lots of files in each directory. This is likely what
> causes your mail system to "bog down" when there's a bunch of bounce messages
> waiting in the queue. On a properly configured system, messages which are
> just sitting in the queue waiting for their next delivery attempt won't have
> much effect on qmail's performance.
Hmmm, ok, what would a good split be for 70000-100000 in the queue?
(about how many would build up over a weeks time before they started getting
tossed anyway)
>
>
> Once your system accepts a message from the internet, and issues a 2xx code in
> response to the DATA command of the SMTP conversation, you have agreed to do
> one of the following things:
>
> -deliver the message successfully to its final destination
> -return a bounce message to the envelope sender stating why delivery
> failed
>
> If you're discarding bounces, you're violating these conditions. That's
> unacceptable to many/most mail admins.
>
> Instead of trying to fix the symptoms (mail system bogs down when lots of
> inactive messages in the queue, most of which are bounces which have been
> deferred), why not fix the problem (inappropriate setup of MTA)?
>
Well, let's have a look at the queue for today. (it's past 5000 already)
There seems to be a few thousand from batfly.net letting non-existant users of
ours know about the fact they won the first round of something or other.
(wow, so many winners, I'm impressed :) About 3500 of them trying to wing
their way back home.
There's a bunch from Mike at usa.com trying to sell webhosting..
(Hey, that's special, he addressed it to himself too)
There's a heap from netway.com trying to sell masterCD2001.
(interesting, one of the received from: lines is about 1000 '.'s
Oh, here's an original bunch.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trying to sell a XXX biz. (what a
shock :)
Anyway, yeah, I'd love to care for every one of these Emails, but for some
reason I just can't. These wonderful folk have utterly wasted my server too
many times by firing tens of thousands of Emails at the server within an
hour or two and caused me to have to work for hours trying to clean up the
mess.
Greg
