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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Please help... major problem with huge mailqActions...
From:Gordon Messmer (yiny@eburg.com)
Date:Dec 1, 2003 11:41:43 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

Thank you, Rodrigo.

As I believe that most of your 200,000 messages are from the same source and/or created for the same reason/problem I think you could try to look at some of them at random. I bet you will quickly recognize some pattern.

What do you suggest I look for?

A pattern. Capturing "mailq"s output to a file would be a good place to start, so that you can examine the queue contents without waiting for the program to run on each pass.

Once you have that, you can do something like:

grep '^daemon' /tmp/mailq.output | sort | uniq -c

That'll give you a count of each sender. See if there are hundreds of thousands of messages from one sender that you can nuke. If you get a large number of senders that are blank, then your queue is full of DSNs.

Is there any way to slow down the rate of incoming messages while increasing the rate of outgoing messages?

You can decrease the maximum number of SMTP sessions by decreasing MAXDAEMONS in etc/courier/esmtpd.