Everyone thanks for the replies. I did take a look at the overflow directory and it was empty. I cleaned out the spool directory and offloaded all outbound to our production servers. We'll see how this works out before digging in too far.
This server has a dedicated T1 and is saturated some of the time. On busy days it sends 100,000 messages out, but on average only about half of that. The CPU load stays at about 30 - 35%, but that's all. It should now send everything to our production machines and should keep nothing in the queue. I hope that solves it. Thanks again, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Two JunkMail questions please... > > >#2 My mail server does quite a bit of list serving. I've noticed that > >since I installed JunkMail my server is running further and further behind. > >I've gone from nearly immediate delivery of messages to nearly an hour > >behind. Is the Declude replacement to the Ipswitch mail handler that much > >more inefficient, or does JunkMail just take alot more processing? My CPU > >utilization chart is not too high, but it take so long to process messages. > > The only thing that I can think of is that you're already close to the > limits of your server. > > Declude JunkMail only scans mailing list messages once (when they come in), > and can actually improve delivery time. I'm guessing that the extra > overhead of spam scanning (which isn't that much, BTW) is pushing you to > the point where the delays are occurring. > > When the mail is slow in being delivered, do you see lots of files in the > \IMail\spool\overflow directory? > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
