Question about qstat and qread

1999-10-27 Thread Stan Horwitz
Hello qmail gurus: I am just trying to gain an improved understanding of the results that are returned by the qmail-qstat and qmail-qread programs. When I type qmail-qstat and get a result that says something like: messages in queue: 5 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 2 I what

Re: [OT] Any thoughts on instant messaging vs. smtp

1999-10-24 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: I understand the pros and cons of each, but am interested in knowing if there is anyone on this list who thinks instant messaging has a chance of upseating smtp. This is a silly question. They are

Concurrencyremote for a specific host

1999-10-19 Thread Stan Horwitz
Hello fellow qmail users: In the qmail documentation, there's information about that says I can use the concurrencyremote control file to set the maximum number of concurrent remote mail deliveries can occur. I am wondering if this can be set on a per system basis. Specifically, I want to set

Re: Ensuring operation

1999-10-07 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Nagendra Mishr wrote: Does anyone know the best way to monitor running Systems? I.e. I want to know that somthing is wrong with the system... Is the best way to read the logs? It seems to me that your question is beyond the topic of the qmail list. There are a number

Re: OT: Average Internet e-mail size

1999-10-02 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: Found what seems to be an answer at http://www.groupcomputing.com/Issues/1998/98SeptOct/98SOp32_EmailCrisis/98sop32_emailcrisis.html Looks like around 25K is the average.

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg size was 23K. I would not bet on it. The average message size is not an indicator of network traffic. For

Re: Alpha Base

1999-09-02 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Kulish, Chris (Des Moines) wrote: Is anyone running qmail on an alpha based machine out there? If so, what are your thoughts on it? Any problems that would affect choosing to run this on an alpha? We run qmail as the mail transport agent for a very active Listserv on