On Thursday 05 September 2002 17:12, Kory Wheatley wrote:
What I have done to maybe slow down the delivery to sendmail that creates the queue files then delivers them to our mail server is in the Mailman SMTPDirect.py I have used the sleep command to sleep after delivering so that our mail server can catch up before the next batch is delivered, this way its not being bombarded.
It seems to me like the right way to handle your situation would be to
adjust the QueueLA and RefuseLA parameters on the HP/UX box's sendmail.
That way you fix the situation no matter what the source of the
bombardment is, as opposed to just fixing it from your Mailman server.
From /etc/sendmail.cf on a generic system: # load average at which we just queue messages O QueueLA=8 # # load average at which we refuse connections O RefuseLA=12
Just change QueueLA to, say, 1 and RefuseLA to, say, 2 or 3. Once the load average drops back below the threshold, sendmail will start accepting/delivering mail as appropriate.
Just a thought. Kyle