I think you can make another qmail instance on the same machine at another
port
and use the new qmail instance as your active mail server until mails on
original qmail instance runs out.
May it helps.
Paulus Hendarwan
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"Simon K. Grabowski" wrote:
> Yahoo mail servers are down and it is heavily affecting my box.
>
> qmail-qstat shows that there are over 45000 messages
> in queue (# growing all the time).
>
> Normally I wouldn't mind the queue, BUT the problem
> is that it is affecting outgoing mail to OTHER servers
> as well. It seems that simultaneous deliveries to Yahoo
> are choking qmail-send and other mail is not going through
> either.
>
> Is there anything I can do to 'surpress' those Yahoo deliveries?
>
> --Simon
>
> qmail-showctl output:
>
> qmail home directory: /web/qmail.
> user-ext delimiter: -.
> paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> silent concurrency limit: 500.
> subdirectory split: 23.
> user ids: 7018, 7019, 7020, 0, 7021, 7022, 7023, 7024.
> group ids: 7009, 7010.
>
> badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
>
> bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
>
> bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is XXX.
>
> concurrencylocal: Local concurrency is 100.
>
> concurrencyremote: Remote concurrency is 200.
>
> databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
>
> defaultdomain: Default domain name is XXX.
>
> defaulthost: Default host name is localhost.
>
> doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: XXX.
>
> doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
>
> envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is XXX.
>
> helohost: SMTP client HELO host name is XXX.
>
> idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is XXX.
>
> localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes XXX.
>
> locals:
> Messages for XXX are delivered locally.
> Messages for XXX are delivered locally.
>
> me: My name is XXX.
>
> percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
>
> plusdomain: Plus domain name is XXX.
>
> qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
>
> queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
>
> rcpthosts:
> <snip>
>
> morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
>
> morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
>
> smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 .
>
> smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
>
> timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutremote: SMTP client data timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
