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[Etienne MELEARD <address@concealed>]

Hello,

As per the manual and as its name does not imply, the outgoing spool is 
used to store messages to be archived, messages to be sent are stored in 
database, so if your outgoing spool is emptying too slow it means the 
archiver is taking time to proccess messages.

Reference : http://www.sympa.org/manual_6.2/organization#spools


Regards,

Etienne MELEARD

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Le 25/02/2014 05:18, Steve Shipway a écrit :
> We have a situation on our Sympa server where the outgoing queue in 
> /var/spool/sympa/outgoing appears to be taking a very long time to drain.
>
> Although the incoming queue in /var/spool/sympa/msg rarely even gets 
> above 10 and never gets over 20, the outgoing queue can hit 500 or 
> more before slowly draining at about 200 msg/hr. The SMTP queue on the 
> host in question never goes over 1 and the mail smarthost has stacks 
> of capacity (we have Nagios and MRTG monitoring of the queue lengths – 
> let me know if anyone wants the relevant plugins to achieve this)
>
> In sympa.conf, we have maxsmtp=200 , nrcpt=50 and avg=10. Most email 
> addresses will be in one of two domains.
>
> Does anyone have an idea why the outgoing queue might take so long to 
> clear? I would have thought it could drain faster that this – and that 
> if anything messages would end up in the sendmail queue. Do we have 
> something misconfigured? Is there something that might be locking the 
> outbound queue?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Steve
>
> *Steve Shipway*
>
> University of Auckland
>
> /UNIX Systems Design Team Lead/
>
> address@concealed
>
> +64 (9) 3737 599 ext 86487