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From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Log file message part 3
PakOgah wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Quoting Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> Glen Vickers wrote:
> just OOT, are both brother or one family? you two have same lastname?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> How many messages are stuck in the queue? You may just need to set the
>>> queuelifetime to a low amount and let it clear out, then change the
>>> queuelifetime back.
>>
>>
>> There's only 3 at this time. where do i set the queuelifetime? i'm
>> alright with just about everything else but managing the queue. sad
>> really.
>>
> it's on /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime
> Jack said you can set it about 3 or 4 hours (it is 4x60x60 seconds)
> then restart qmail
>
>3-4 hours is what I use - it's what I have found to work well for me on
>my systems. That way when someone sends an email, they can get a bounce
>or error within the same business day that something didn't go right.
>Otherwise if they mispelled an email address, it would be 5+ days before
>they found out, and that could cost them a lot of money in dealings.
>I have my client's main server set for 3 hours. I have a backup MX that
>sits idle, but monitors the main machine. It also has a 3 hour
>queuelifetime. If the main server stops answering, then the backup
>changes the queuelifetime to 3 days - that way it caches emails for my
>clients, and gives me time to get to a computer to fix whatever broke if
>I'm traveling.
It was set to a week. I have it now at 3 hours, queue is still not
flushing. I've used the queue_repair.py with -rd options. Only other thing
I can think of is to rebuild the queue.
>From the addresses coming in, I can tell its' only the logwatch logs and
some spam (personal server tryin to learn here).
I have checked the permissions in the vpopmail directory. They are correct
at 700 with vpopmail and vchkpw as user and group. As far as I can tell all
other settings are right with the correct permissions as well. What else
should I check?
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