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Subject: Re: site destiination queue overflow
From: Drew Bloechl (drewcesspool.net)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 19:07:04 CDT

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Jeff Schneiter wrote:
> What is the "It" that is "preventing YAHOO from blocking all
> your other mail delivery".

The qmgr limit on site delivery.

> We tend to have three or four day burts of 4 million messages
> going out, many of them to yahoo, getting the same problems as
> Drew (but including dropped connections when sending DATA).
>
> How does setting qmgr_site_hog_factor = 100 help the rest of our
> email? I would have thought that setting it to something lower would
> free up resources that yahoo would otherwise take...am i thinking
> backwards?

AFAICT qmgr_site_hog_factor is the percentage of smtp processes that can
be busy sending mail (or trying to send mail) to a given site.

> Why would Drew or I want yahoo to saturate the active queue?
> Does setting the hog_factor to 100 get the yahoo mail quickly from
> incoming to defer (or fallback_relay in our case)?

If you let it hog the queue there _might_ be a little more of a chance
of some of the mail getting through, although this may backlog all other
mail. 

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Drew Bloechl
drewcesspool.net
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