very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix

[Mike Kercher]

Do you run a local caching-only nameserver on your MTA box?  That may help
RBL/DNS performance.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ron E.
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:50 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: very urgent problem with MailScanner + postfix
>
> Hi Kris,
>
> the child settings and the message size limits are default -
> I believe it's 5 on the children - and no, no copies created
> on the mta.
>
> One thing I'm noticing in the logs as well is a seemingly
> very slow performance on RBL checks... maybe I could disable
> some - but this is odd as I've not had this problem in the past.
>
> -Ron
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Kris Zabriskie wrote:
>
> > Ron,
> > How many child processes are you allowing MailScanner to
> use?  In the
> > MailScanner.Conf file there are also some limits on message size.
> > What are they set to?  Are you by chance using the approach
> at the mta
> > level, it will take a message addressed to multiple people
> and making
> > "X" copies of that message?
> >
> >
> > > Hopefully someone will see this very shortly.
> > >
> > > Several days ago I posted a message about the same problem where
> > > mailscanner begins to backlog and errors about messages
> "still being
> > > delivered" show up in the maillog, with hardly any
> messages passed
> > > by mailscanner to the mta.
> > >
> > > I've since upgraded to 4.24-5 due to a backlog starting to happen
> > > again but it never cleared up and is unfortunately much
> worse this
> > > time - (much larger backlog).
> > >
> > > I've temporarily stopped the incoming postfix to give
> mailscanner a
> > chance
> > > to catch up, but need some debugging here to get the
> backlog cleared
> > > out as fast as possible and to fully fix this...
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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