Looks like mostly "default settings", are there unix settings I should check also?
We have a T1 here, 1300+ kbps up (which is 99% available off hours when we run, and probably 95% available all other times). Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./qmail-showctl qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 509. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 500, 501, 502, 0, 503, 504, 505, 506. group ids: 500, 501. badhelo: (Default.) Any HELO host name is allowed. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. badmailfromnorelay: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. badmailto: (Default.) No RCPT TO are specifically denied. badmailtonorelay: (Default.) No RCPT TO are specifically denied. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20. databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes. doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds. morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect. morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect. smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. spfbehavior: The SPF behavior is 3. spfexp: (Default.) The SPF default explanation is: 550 See http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=%{S}&ip=%{I}&receiver=%{xR}. spfguess: (Default.) The guess SPF rules are: . spfrules: (Default.) The local SPF rules are: . spamt/spamt.cdb: (Default.) No effect. timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does. concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does. servercert.pem: I have no idea what this file does. clientcert.pem: I have no idea what this file does. locals.lock: I have no idea what this file does. rsa512.pem: I have no idea what this file does. dh512.pem: I have no idea what this file does. dh1024.pem: I have no idea what this file does. rcpthosts.lock: I have no idea what this file does. virtualdomains.lock: I have no idea what this file does. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [toaster] Mail Queue... Damian Barry wrote: > All, > > > > I have been sending out email campaigns to a list of 50 - 60,000. > > I notice that the mail queue has about 30,000 that are just trickling > out (about 100 per minute). > > > > Is this typical?! Should I expect a campaign of that size to take 12 > hours to run? > > DNS lookups are quick when tested from the command line. > > The mail is just HTML text, no attachments. > > > > My hardware is modest, older P4 with 512MB on RedHat 9. > > > > I'm running the last toaster before the most recent update. > > > > Any ideas? > > Should I slow down the rate at which I inject mail into the queue? > > Should I re-evaluate the hardware? Depends on a lot of things. remoteconcurrency, bandwidth available, big-to-do patch etc. What is your current remoteconcurrency set to and how much bandwidth do you have available ? Regards, Rick
