MAIL QUEUE TOO LONG AND HIGH LOAD

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

All caps is often filtered. Looks like spam.



On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:15 PM, "Carlo Granisso"  
<c.granisso at dnshosting.it> wrote:

> Ok, sorry.
> I've modified subject.
>
> We have no greylisting activated.
> So, you think that sender verification could be the problem.
> There's some way that can help me to improve sender verification?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Carlo
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Per conto di  
> James Shupe
> Inviato: giovedì 18 dicembre 2008 17.50
> A: MailScanner discussion
> Oggetto: Re: PROBLEM
>
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 16:38 +0100, Carlo Granisso wrote:
>> Hello everybody.
>> I've a combination of postfix and mailscanner to filter my mails.
>> From friday I've problem with bounce mail.
>> In postfix queue I've lots of messages of "MAILER-DAEMON".
>> Mail queue reached about 2000 of bounce messages.
>>
>> So in postfix I've put:
>>
>> bounce_queue_lifetime = 10s
>> maximal_queue_lifetime = 120s
>>
>>
>> Queue is working better but in mail.log I've lots o lines with:
>>
>> Dec 18 16:37:10 filtro1 postfix/smtpd[17725]: lost connection after
>> DATA (0 bytes) from XXXXXX
>>
>> or
>>
>> Dec 18 16:32:13 filtro1 postfix/smtpd[17357]: lost connection after
>> CONNECT from
>>
>>
>> Have you got ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Carlo
>
> This isn't an answer to your question, but rather a thought about  
> your post.
> These mailing lists are archived for later searching and non- 
> descriptive
> subjects such as "PROBLEM" or "HELP PLZ" (we've all seen
> these) dampen that process. Also, many people on these lists  
> selectively
> read through these posts based on the subject lines. Using a specific
> subject line in your post will both waste less time and increase the
> likelihood of somebody being able to assist you.
>
> As for your problem, sender verification is probably a large part of  
> your
> problem. If you're going to set bounce_queue_lifetime so short, just  
> set it
> to 0. That way it will only be tried once. I wouldn't set
> maximal_queue_lifetime so short, as it will eventually come back to  
> bite you
> when somebody's server is down for a short period of time, and it  
> probably
> breaks communications with servers that employ greylisting.
>
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