Finally: I'm live... :)

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

Sounds like you have a beefy server, especially for 30 to 70 users.  

I have 75 users and don't have a beefy server:
500mhz
384RAM

Here are a few mail log entries:

REGULAR DELAY FOR ME:


May  2 04:04:17 MailScanner sendmail[19765]: i42942m4019765:
to=<cjackson at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30263,
stat=queued

May  2 04:04:32 MailScanner sendmail[19769]: i4294Rm4019769:
to=<csharrer at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30552,
stat=queued

HI DELAY:
I'm guessing that its high here because of the connection refused by,
which I don't know what that means.
May  2 04:10:36 MailScanner sendmail[19923]: i428lEm4019071:
to=<spam at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:23:22, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
pri=300394, relay=[10.1.1.2], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
refused by [10.1.1.2]

May  2 04:10:39 MailScanner sendmail[19923]: i428LVm4018713:
to=<spam at woodmaclaw.com>, delay=00:49:06, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
pri=480812, relay=[10.1.1.2], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
refused by [10.1.1.2]

I have no idea why, but my log is full of connection refused like the
above.  Hhmmm...

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Jason Williams
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:41 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Finally: I'm live... :)

>So your not pushing your box much then :-)  Those look pretty good. As
>far as things to look for I always keep an eye on delivery delays, as
>Peter (I think?) said earlier, it's a good indicator and over view of
>system & network performance. If an area starts to under perform you
>will see the delays increase (For example if Razor starts to time out
>while doing network checks, not a problem that you have much direct
>control over but it might start to cause queue increases).

I know I know. I tend to be cautions. Better safe than sorry has always
been my motto. :)

As far as delays, the highest I have seen so far is: (on the mail
gateway
with MS)

delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00,

Granted, I have considered putting on a caching name server on the box
to
speed up results.

What I find interesting though is when email from my internal server
goes
out, there is a slight delay. Not horrible, but could be better.
Any recommendations?

>If I want to keep an eye on things and the server is not too busy, I
>will tail the mail log for a while just monitoring message delivery
speeds.
>
>Drew

Right now, im watching the logs, just seeing how things are
going...everything appears to be running smoothly. Doing some tweaks
here
and tweaks there, but so far so good.

I am super amped right now though, so im trying to just chill out a
bit..:)

Tuning and tweaking as I go...reading over the MAQ's, FAQ's and anything
else I can get my hands on.

I appreciate everyones help...again. :)

Best,

Jason

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