From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com" Subject: Re: sendmail queues Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:51:37 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200409011051.37392.admins@domenca.com> References: <20040831113624.GA26416@cow2.intra.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040831113624.GA26416@cow2.intra.tumsan.fi> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Although i think i have sendmail configured properly I had to write a script which parses the mqueue directory and removes unnecessary files (data files without control file, lost-control files, transcript files etc). I run it periodically to address given issues. Don't know about parallel stuff... Regards, Bostjan On Tuesday 31 of August 2004 13:36, urgrue wrote: > If my sendmail's queue fills up for some reason (for example, if a primary > MX is down and my sendmail is its secondary MX), it takes _ages_ for it to > empty out again. Sendmail seems to process each spooled file consecutively > instead of in parallel, and for some reason takes ages on each. It seems > like it doesnt "trash" mails ever. Some of the mails in the spool are a > month old - in most cases probably spam or similar mails that dont have a > valid destination at all, therefore simply just eat up sendmail's time as > it goes through them all, waiting for timeout on each. > Shouldn't mails older than 5 days simply get trashed, since I have > Timeout.queuereturn set to 5d? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html