Thanks everyone for your input. It looks like my install is now working as it should be.
The slow delivery times was caused by performance problems on a remote mail server and a MX record that should have been reconfigured. The simple story was that 5+ years ago I was running backup smtp servers for some of my clients. The problem was that I still had one of these clients setup with me running a backup to their mailserver. What looks to have happened is that the recent increase in mail caused their mail server beyond capacity which caused an assortment of problems from not responding, to starting to accept mail and then stall. So when their mail server was choking mail started to come into my Alligate server. When my Alligate tried to verify users it would contact the sick mail server which for all practical purposes tar-pitted the requests. Eventually Alligate was using all it's resources to establish connections to a mail server that could not complete requests, and email simply backed up. Once AGSupport reconfigured my AG box to not accept mail for the problem domain the problem went away (after is cleared it's backlog). The 2nd issue was a new domain I added I misspelled the domain name. Even after I had checked the spelling on not less than 5 occasions I missed the typo each time. Once that was corrected AG worked as expected. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Scott Fosseen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:19 PM To: <declude.junkmail@declude.com> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Alligate Problems | >From the recommendations from this list I am currently evaling alligate. I | have to say my installation has been plagued with problems. I installed on | a fresh HP DL360 G3 with dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon processors, 4 gig of ram, and | mirrored Ultra320 SCSI 72 Gig drives. --- 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.
