Mail pending 754

[David While]

A couple of questions/comments:

1. You shouldn't be bouncing any spam responses. If you have 480 of
these then they are taking up system resources every time your MTA tries
to send them.

2. Do you have more than one queue directory configured? Most MTAs will
allow it and mailstats can be configured to count messages in those
directories as well.

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David While
Technical Development Manager
Faculty of Computing, Information & English
University of Central England
Tel: 0121 331 6211
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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
Sent: 06 February 2004 14:25
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mail pending 754


Sorry for my newbness to Linux in general.

Ok, I did mailq and it came up with 480 entries.  From the entries I'm
guessing that I shouldn't care about these because they are for example:

i13I6CcX001139      747 Tue Feb  3 13:06 <>
                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with
mail2.prizeservers.com.)
 
<mailer-fpc23-return-41-pbadger=woodma

They look like spam things.  So what happened to the other 500 or so
emails that mailstats saids in que?  Or should I not even worry about
it.  It just seems that my 500mhz machine might not be keeping up.

-----Original Message-----
From: David While [mailto:David.While at UCE.AC.UK] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:05 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mail pending 754

Mailstats counts the number of mails pending by counting the number of
qf files in the directories configured. It is possible that you have qf
files being left without the corresponding df files. As someone
previously said you could type mailq at the prompt to see what the queue
tells you.
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David While
Technical Development Manager
Faculty of Computing, Information & English
University of Central England
Tel: 0121 331 6211
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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
Sent: 06 February 2004 14:02
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mail pending 754


Now it says 954.  Someone please tell me what this means?  Does it mean
what it says, that there are almost a 1000 emails waiting to be
delivered?  No one has said anything to make it seem this way though.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Billy A. Pumphrey 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:30 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mail pending 754

On my stats it says "Mail pending 754"

Is this a big number?  I use mailstats and that's what it shows.

More:
Mail Analysis
General Mail Statistics
Data since December 23 2003 13:42:20 - Data up to February 5 2004
17:20:02 EST (44.2 days)
Total messages handled 87,995   Messages rejected 187   Total data
handled 1.09G bytes    Spam received 42,062 
Messages handled successfully 87,808   Rejection rate 0.21%   Average
message size 13K bytes   Blocked IPs 0 
Average messages per day 1,995   Viruses detected 2,088   Rejected in
last 5 mins 0   Spam rate 47.90% 
Messages in last 5 mins 25   Infection rate 2.38%   Mail pending 754
AV Updated Feb 5 17:01:03