MTA

[Steve Hickel]

This must be what happens when the mail backs up at the mail store and I kick start mailscanner and then it flows in. This would be where a faster server would be of assistance, I take?

Thanks,

Steve

David While <David.While at UCE.AC.UK> wrote ..
> Looks like your server is going into overload - I suspect SpamAssassin
> was
> timed out because the system was so heavily loaded. Sendmail has built
> into
> it a mechanism such that if the machine load goes above a certain figure
> it
> will not accept any more incoming mail. From the message your load was
> 13.
> This means that your server was rejecting any incoming SMTP connections
> until the load reduces.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> David While
> Technical Development Manager
> Faculty of Computing, Information & English
> University of Central England
> Tel: 0121 331 6211
>
>
>
>                       Steve Hickel
>                       <smhickel at CHARTER        To:       MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>                       MI.NET>                  cc:
>                       Sent by:                 Subject:  Re: MTA
>                       MailScanner
>                       mailing list
>                       <MAILSCANNER at JISC
>                       MAIL.AC.UK>
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>                       29/05/2003 15:54
>                       Please respond to
>                       MailScanner
>                       mailing list
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>
> All,
>
> Anybody have any idea what this means and how it affects my email?
>
> SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
> May 29 10:46:41 mailscan - MailScanner SpamAssassin timed out and was
> killed, consecutive failure 2 of 20
> May 29 10:46:34 mailscan - sendmail rejecting connections on daemon MTA:
> load average: 13
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Hickel