mail routing performance issues, backing up in /var/spool/mqueue

[lester lasad]

I forgot to answer one of the questions, Ugo had
asked:
> I don't see anything special here, but would you be
> bouncing spam, by
> any chance?

spam is being forwarded to a domino server on my
internal network.  Need to do this for retrieval of
false positives


--- Ugo Bellavance <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >>Could you show us some of your logs?
>
>  > Here is a portion of the log:
>  > Jun 28 11:00:19 localhost MailScanner[11462]: New
>  > Batch: Found 1497 messages waiting
>  > Jun 28 11:00:19 localhost MailScanner[11462]: New
>  > Batch: Scanning 30 messages, 253375 bytes
>
> You've got ~1500 messages waitinig in mqueue.in...
> this is not exactly
> what I call a normal situation;  How many processes
> are you using in
> your config?
>
> What is the hardware of this server?
>
> What is the output of
>
> ls -l /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l
>
> ?
>
> (that will give us the number of tiles in your
> incoming queue)
>
> >>
> >>And what do you have when you do
> >>
> >>mailq
> >
> > Here is a portion of mailq, my MS server is a
> relay
> > server to xyz.com.com
> > i5TL16RX022657      303 Tue Jun 29 16:01
> > <mlegare at cabinetrybykarman.com>
> >
> > <aturner at xyz.com>
> > i5TL1TRX022803      868 Tue Jun 29 16:01
> > <dfield1 at email.uophx.edu>
> >
>
> <snip>
> I don't see anything special here, but would you be
> bouncing spam, by
> any chance?
>
> I think the problem is more an overall problem than
> just an outgoing
> sendmail problem...
>
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