From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 26 16:58: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D0737B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (user38.net339.fl.sprint-hsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2BA43E65 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6QNvrO99948; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:57:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:57:53 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: Jason Woyak Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail queue problem Message-ID: <20020726235753.GC99749@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020726173048.00a102a0@dual03.skypoint.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020726173048.00a102a0@dual03.skypoint.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On or about Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 17:38 , while attempting a Zarathustra emulation Jason Woyak thus spake: > I work at a mid-sized ISP, and we've been having a problem > where if mail is queued to send to a server that isnt online > (or at least, isnt accepting mail), it sits and waits a long > time (several minutes) for the mail message to time out, all > the while /var/spool/mqueue is filling up (got up to ~5000 > messages this time).. is there some sort of setting i can make > so sendmail doesnt die? i've looked around about this but had > no luck.. its an older freebsd machine (this particular one > is 3.4-stable) running sendmail 8.10.1. any help is mucho > appreciated.. thanks I remember seeing slowness on older machines - and part was the ident timeout. All around mail performance improved when I went to a 4.x platform and sendmail in the 8.11 series. I'd suggest an OS and sendmail upgrade. I hated to do that to my old machine with an uptime of over 500 days - but it had to be done. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message