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

[Lonni J Friedman]

Have you checked the log to see what might be going on?

On 8/14/07, Andrew Rosolino <andrew at shiftcode.com> wrote:
> 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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