On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:41:23 +0300, Grigory Batalov wrote:
What does Mailman's smtp log look like? Does it show evidence of 'continuous processing'?
Well, there are messages like this:
Jan 08 01:55:11 2008 (12250) <47815B62.3090806@gmail.com> smtp to sisyphus for 1 recips, completed in 30.005 seconds
About 21000 posts per day, every took 30 seconds "for 1 recips". Should they address more recipients or take less time?
Sorry, not every. Some of messages are for 10-400 recipients and completed in 0.1-50 seconds (depending on recipients count). Probably these are "real" messages, and those I wrote before are "retries".
The issue appears to be a backlogged 'out' queue. In order to say more, we need to know what's causing all the retries (smtp-failure log) and whether there are outgoing messages taking inordinately long to process (smtp log).
-- Grigory Batalov, ALT Linux Team