postfix/mailscanner: mail backs up in outoging

[Harry Hanson]

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From: "Drew Marshall" <drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: postfix/mailscanner: mail backs up in outoging


> Harry Hanson wrote:
>
> >using as gateway.. messages do get to the inside mail server for local
> >delivery, however it backs up to the point the fs runs out of inodes. it
> >appears ms does it's scan and drops in the outgoing mail dir
> >(/var/spool/postfix/incoming) but the deliver rate is simply so slow
> >everything backs up till it the file system fills up. any ideas?
> >
> If I'm not mistaken but have you hijacked a previous thread with this
> one? If so could you move it to it's own as the archives are hard enough
> already...

?

> When you do, could you post me some log extracts as I would like to see
> why postfix is taking taking so long. With that much queued in active
> there is something wrong with your up stream flow...

which part of the logs would you like to see? they don't tell me much,
unfortunately, which is partly why i posted here for help.

> Drew
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