[Linux-users] Exim Timeout.. Causing server to get way backedup!

[Andrew Rosolino]

That's not what delay_warning is... Delay_warning sends you an e-mail
letting u know if the message was delayed.. By setting that high I made it
so it doesn't send any extra e-mails. There was once 4,000 messages over 4
days and it tried to send 4,000 emails telling me they were all delayed.

Sincerly,
Andrew Rosolino
Programmer
 


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at pananix.com
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at pananix.com] On Behalf Of Lonni J Friedman
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:03 PM
To: linux-users at pananix.com
Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Exim Timeout.. Causing server to get way
backedup!


On 8/14/07, Andrew Rosolino <andrew at shiftcode.com> wrote:
>
> Ok we have a serious problem.. there is over 9,000 messages in the 
> mail queue and a lot of them are over 4 days old!! I dont understand 
> why there is messages over 4days in it because we have it set up like 
> so.
>
> delay_warning = 100d

100 days before a delay warning?  is that really what you want?

> queue_run_max = 15
> deliver_queue_load_max = 5
> auto_thaw = 1d
> ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2d
> timeout_frozen_after = 3d
>
> Then we have another problem and I think this might be the issue.. we 
> tried to process the 4 day ones and they almost all came back as this:
>
> Message 1IJYcA-0006Ng-Gy is not frozen
> delivering 1IJYcA-0006Ng-Gy
> Connecting to mail.x.cn [211.151.238.169]:25 ... failed: Connection 
> timed out (timeout=5m)
> LOG: MAIN
>   mail.x.cn [211.151.238.169] Connection timed out
> LOG: MAIN
>   == daikai at x.cn R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection 
> timed out

so clearly the MX for x.cn is down.

>
> So it tried to send the message for 5 minutes and then timedout and 
> kept the message on the list? I am assuming it keeps trying to process 
> these messages and wasteing 5 minutes on each one.. why doesnt it just 
> delete them if they timeout.

because you set the delay warning to 100 days.

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