[courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

Hi, I am trying to use courier-mta (courierimap/courierpop), squirrelmail, spamassassin (w/razor2) and RAV antivirus as a spam/virus reduced service to my customers. In testing everything worked great. Now that I have about 1000 users on the box, I am running into mail delays (up

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

Colin Dick wrote: As far as I can tell, I am getting more mail than I am able to process through the memory based queue during peak times and the messages are getting dumped to the disk based queue. Many of courier's default settings are too low for a large scale server. My first suggestion w

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

I would not try to tune that one server, it can maybe get a bit better, but you will have troubles still. How about setting up a box with just courier for the outbound mail? You server could just relay everything to send away to this one and keep his queue free. There you don't have to scan mail

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

Hi, Thank for your comments. Now I have a couple more questions: I have all courier files installed under /usr/lib/courier. What folders specifically should I move to a partition mounted with 'noatime'. I guess /usr/lib/courier/var. Would it be best to do all of /usr/lib/courier. Do

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

Colin Dick wrote: I have all courier files installed under /usr/lib/courier. What folders specifically should I move to a partition mounted with 'noatime'. I guess /usr/lib/courier/var. That'd be the important one. The spool directories are best installed in /var/spool (rpm install creates /var

RE: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization.

EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Dick Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:09 PM To: Mircea Damian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization. Hi, Thank for your comments. Now I have a couple more questions: I have all courier files installed under /

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization. (Repost)

Hello, I had the same problem at the beginning of SoBig and similars which were filling my queue. At that point I had at least 2 messages in the queue in the peak time. I came with the following optimizations: 1. Mount the partition with folders and mail queue with noatime flag. That will s

Re: [courier-users] Newbie: mail queue optimization. (Repost)

Oops, forgot the attachment. Hello, I had the same problem at the beginning of SoBig and similars which were filling my queue. At that point I had at least 2 messages in the queue in the peak time. I came with the following optimizations: 1. Mount the partition with folders and mail queue w