Topic: speed up delivery of mail in qmail queue?!

[Patrick Basile]

Hello everyone,

When I came in this morning I had over 300 messages in the qmail queue (due to RAV I think) - anyway, I removed RAV and now the queue seems to be getting smaller but it's already taken an hour to go through 100 emails.  Seems like a long time, there isn't THAT much of a load on the server!

Is there a way to speed up delivery of mail in the qmail queue?  Or force it to a higher priority to get those emails outta that queue?  Thanks.

Regards,
Patrick

[Rich Lafferty]

Yes -- make the recipients accept it faster.

Seriously, by default qmail makes a maximum of 20 concurrent outgoing connections. To temporarily increase this, put a larger number in

/var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote

Note that your change will be clobbered next time the template for that
file is expanded, so if you need the value to be permanent, make a
custom template for that file.

Cheers,

--Rich

[Patrick Basile]

Thanks, Rich...

Is there a way to stop delivery of certain email in the qmail queue?  I have a bunch of false RAV warning messages showing in the queue and I'd like to stop those from being delivered.  Ideas?

Regards,
Patrick

[Rich Lafferty]

There's no built-in way to do so (other than making it deliver to an address that discards the mail, or deleting from the queue by hand), but there are some utilities available for qmail that make deleting from the queue easier. They'll
be linked from the contributed-apps section of www.qmail.org -- search for "queue" there. I haven't used any personally.

--Rich