Connection Deferrals

[Ken Anderson]

What's the Load Avg?
See QueueLA,RefuseLA,DelayLA in sendmail.cf
If max children is too low, it could cause connection problems too.
Also look at ConnectionRateThrottle
For reference: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op-sh-5.html
Ken A.
Pacific.Net

Kearney, Rob wrote:

> My firewall is reporting some connection deferrals to our MailScanner
> server.
>
> Does increasing "Max Children"  help with the # of connections sendmail will
> allow at one time or does it just process the amount of mail received
> faster.
> Currently MailScanner is keeping up with the "volume" that gets received,
> its just the machine is deferring the connections.
> Or is there a sendmail option that needs to be tuned?  Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
>
> -rob
>
>