On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:22:52AM -0400, Fox allegedly wrote:
> My timeoutremote was the default of 20 minutes waiting for a response
> from the mail server. This seems excessive to me. I would like to
> lower it to between 1 to 5 minutes so I don't have a bunch of
> qmail-remote processes loitering doing nothing.
What problem are you trying to solve exactly? Are you running out of
concurrencyremote and don't have sufficient resources to increase that
value?
A bunch of loitering qmail-remotes consume very few system resources
so you may be worrying about a non-problem.
> Is there any reason the default is so high at 20 minutes? Won't most
> mail servers respond within 15 seconds or less? Will setting it lower
> adversely impact my mail delivery capability?
I believe the RFC suggests such long time periods. I agree that they
are very high. But, before changing this value, are you sure that's
the reason that the qmail-remotes are taking so long? What if the
Internet connection is really congested and it's taking a long time to
send the contents? In the case, changing the timeout will do nothing
for you.
Regards.
