Need Recommendations - Problem resovled

[Derek Catanzaro]

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Thanks for all of your suggestions... Once I setup the local caching
name server on my MX servers mail is routing as expected.  No more
delays :-)
I apologize for the delay on my feedback.

Thanks,
Derek

Mike Kercher wrote:

>I would HIGHLY recommend a local caching nameserver on your MX boxen.  You
>might also consider using the clamavmodule instead of straight clamav.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Derek Catanzaro
>Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:01 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Need Recommendations
>
>2 MX servers with the following
>
>Dual 933Mhz 1 Gig of memory
>FC1  (mailscanner and spamassassin need to be upgraded)
>mailscanner-4.31.6-1
>spamassassin-2.63
>
>1.7Mhz 512 Memory (desktop)
>FC2
>mailscanner-4.40.11-1
>spamassassin-3.0.2-1
>
>I am experiencing a slow down in the delivery/processing of email on my
>MailScanner servers.  I receive roughly 50,000 emails on a daily basis and
>if there is a delay in the processing of any emails it can get backed up
>very quickly.  I'm not sure if it is a DNS timing issue?, would anyone
>recommend using local DNS in this case, or does anyone use it and have they
>seen improvements?  Can anyone recommend anything in the MailScanner.conf
>file that may help?
>
>I have "Max children" set to 10 on the server with dual process and 5 on the
>server with one processor, and "queue scan interval" is set to 6 on both
>servers as well.  I am using Clamav as my virus scanner.  Please let me know
>if you need additional info, and thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
>Derek
>
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