On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:16:00PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote:
> > When the exchange server comes back up, I kick the qmail-send
> > process to get it to deliver the queue. At this point I should be able to go
> > off and do other things.
>
> Why are you kicking qmail-send? That should never be necessary in a
> production environment.
It is absolutely necessary.
We have exactly the same issue here. Exchange goes down. Mail backs up on
Qmail servers. Exchange comes back up. USERS ARE TOLD ITS WORKING AGAIN.
Users then wonder why it takes up to 2 hours for queued mail to get to them.
USERS COMPLAIN THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.
Manually ALRM'ing qmail-send for ten minutes is the only way to speed this
up.
The reality is that Qmail's design is basically mutually exclusive of
allowing SMTP connection sharing like Sendmail/Courier/Exchange/etc allow.
That's fine, there are advantages of this approach which Qmail greatly
exploits.
Reality is that some things are better at some things than others. Wow -
there's a shocker :-)
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
