my queues get bogged up every hour

[pdotd]

hey there,

i receive email from about 10 different account and get around 1000 plus emails day, however every hour when i check my queue i will have:

messages in queue: 23
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 27

and when i check the queues in the morning i have:

messages in queue: 1276
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 1278

so everytime my queues get clogged, i have run:
ps afx | grep qmail-send

which gives me:

70734 ?? I 0:00.17 qmail-send
71477 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep qmail-send
388 con- I 0:00.27 supervise qmail-send

then i kill the qmail-send process:

kill -9 70734

i keep doing this till i get 0 messages in my queues
ex:
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

so if anyone knows how to fix this problem from qmail clogging up it would be greatly apprecaited.

thanks

 

[thedaver]

The spammers do most their dirty work at night (USA) and you are probably finding that your queue is populated with bounces and undeliverables. I find that setting your queuelifetime to about a day is useful. This has the effect of making mail undeliverable after a day to anyone whose mailserver is down, but if they're down for a day, there's no reason to believe that their server will be up in any particular period of time.

You could address a potential failure of qmail send by adding a command in your crontab to do "killall qmail-send" once an hour or something. This may lead to some bad hygene or other unwanted issues, but it will keep the daemon running - assuming you're using daemontools to run your qmail-smtpd

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[pdotd]

what would be the code to put in the qmailctl script to run the killall qmail-send command every hour.


pdotd

 

[thedaver]

add it to your crontab run hourly by the 'cron' process that almost every unix/linux runs.

see 'man crontab' for more help or google your way to knowledge. This has nothing to do with qmail.
the actual command is "killall qmail-send"

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