From: Jake Solid (richardsolidgmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 09:51:31 CST

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How can I increase the resources of the server so when the queue gets
overloaded users can still retrieve emails?

At this point I know postfix has nothing to do with POP but if you can
point me in the right direction I will appreciate.

thanks.

On Jan 2, 2008 10:39 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
<leolistassolutti.com.br> wrote:
>
>
> Jake Solid escreveu:
> > Messages are being slowly-delivered to and delayed by their
> > destination servers. We have few sales reps that send emails to
> > registered users. Some of these registered users use email addresses
> > that are no longer in use.
> >
> > When they send the emails a lot of the emails end up in the queue like
> > the following:
> >
> > (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to
> > outside.server.com[1.2.3.4]: Connection timed out)
> >
> >
> 'connection timed out' usually will be caused by your internet
> connection being saturated, which you can easily identify on the graphs
> you should have of your available/used bandwidth. Is your internet link
> saturated ??? If yes, there lies your problem. If yes ... is it being
> saturated by email traffic or by some other traffic, like HTTP or P2P ??
> Note you will have email problems if you get your link saturated by any
> other traffic .... you can have a very low email traffic but still have
> timed out problems if your link is saturated. is link saturated your
> problem ?? If yes, get a bigger link or lower your link usage.
>
> timed outs can be generated by the remote server getting problems
> with saturated connections or overload as well, in which case there's
> NOTHING you can do about it.
>
> > When this happens, the users cannot connect to the POP server to
> > retrieve emails.
> >
> which part of the 'postfix doesnt do pop' or 'postfix has nothing to
> do with pop3' you didnt understand ?
> > How can I workaround this issue? At least how can I tweak the server
> > to allow more resources in case this happens?
> >
> >
> stop sending messages to addresses which no longer exists would be
> an intelligent first step.
>
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