Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
Richard Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will > try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time. > (This is an issue in itself!) Why is this an issue? If the remote host can handle 100 inboun

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> > try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host > at the same time. > > (This is an issue in itself!) > > Why is this an issue? If the remote host can handle 100 inbound > connections, you should be able to open 100 connections to > them, inject > your messages, and close the con

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Henning Brauer
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:09:25AM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > I've also noticed that if qmail tries to deliver (for example) 50 > messages to one host concurrently, perhaps 2 will get through. The rest will > be retried, but unfortunately they tend to get retried at much the same > ti

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:09:25AM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > > I've also noticed that if qmail tries to deliver (for example) 50 > > messages to one host concurrently, perhaps 2 will get through. The rest will > > be retried, but u

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: [snip] > Read what I wrote again. It IS qmail's fault. One role I use qmail > for is to accept mail which is then passed on to an exchange server on the > same network. Here's an example of what can happen ... > > If t

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Henning Brauer
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > > From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:09:25AM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > > > I've also noticed that if qmail tries to deliver (for example) 50 > > > messages to one host co

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > 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 thin

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread MarkD
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:17:22PM +0100, Richard Underwood allegedly wrote: > > And if you don't like this behaviour: write a patch (or find one), or > > stop using qmail. Nobody is forcing you to use qmail. > > > Perhaps, but using this list to tell people (often quite forcefully) > that

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> From: MarkD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Has this been discussed before? Yes. Endlessly. Check the > archives. You are breaking no new ground here at all. > I'm sure it has - it's an important issue. > If you want to be truly helpful, you might want to read the archives > on this ma

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:02:10PM +0200, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > Why are you kicking qmail-send? That should never be necessary in a > > production environment. > > Apparently, your "production environment" does not involve situations when > you

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Haar
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

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread MarkD
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:05:12PM +1200, Jason Haar allegedly wrote: > 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

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Sill
Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is absolutely necessary. Why can't you just run qmail-tcpok and send qmail-send an ALRM? -Dave

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-08 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:04:50PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > 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