Mail pending 754

[Mike Kercher]

mailq will tell you


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:35 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mail pending 754
>
> 1.  Ok, I'll turn that off.
>
> 2.  I don't know how to check to see what queue directories
> are configured, any tips?
>
> Thank you
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David While [mailto:David.While at UCE.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:34 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mail pending 754
>
> 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.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> David While
> Technical Development Manager
> Faculty of Computing, Information & English University of
> Central England
> Tel: 0121 331 6211
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -----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.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> David While
> Technical Development Manager
> Faculty of Computing, Information & English University of
> Central England
> Tel: 0121 331 6211
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> -----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
>